My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Questions outlive the answers.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

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.