In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
No human being is illegal.
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Think higher, feel deeper.
The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
Peace is our gift to each other.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Some stories are true that never happened.
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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.
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.