Time is change, transformation, evolution.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.