We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

The rottenness of politics in Yugoslavia didn't come as a surprise. The main lesson is that this is a war which could have easily been stopped by Europe. What was lacking was any will to do so. It's an irony of the achievement of Europe that it had lived for 40 years under the assumption of the unimaginability of internal wars, so it didn't know what to do with it when it was confronted with one close up.

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.