The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.