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

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

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.

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

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

[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.