A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and do nothing, that's being dead.
I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What's the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.
If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
My commandment is: Thou shall not stand idly by.... You must interfere. [This is] the motto of human rights.
Nothing can, nothing will, justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.
Remembering is a noble and necessary act.
Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations--not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated.
The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened…. You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.