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.

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

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.

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.