Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.