My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported.

Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.

You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

Don't obey if your heart tells you the order is wrong.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.