As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.