It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.