I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.