Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

Security without freedom means slavery.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

With every death, a world is disappearing.

Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.