Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
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?
I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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.
Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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!
I do not believe in collective guilt.
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)
I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.
Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.
I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.
What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
"Not to remember is not an option."
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