For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?
Peace is our gift to each other.
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.
When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.
I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
"Not to remember is not an option."
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