A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

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