A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.