There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

He looks like an angel, sings like an angel. He found my breaking heart and coaxed it into a new rhythm.

But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment.

The minute you make a mistake - that's improvisation!

He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.