There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.