I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

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