Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
When adults wage war, children perish.
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.
What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.
When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.
Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.
"Not to remember is not an option."
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