Everybody is somebody's Jew.

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

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

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.

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.