My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

One person of integrity can make a difference.

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.