Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

To create new rules, use the power of love, courage, and kindness to break the rules.

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Movies are an editor's medium.