In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

[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.

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

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

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

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.