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

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

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.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.