65 quotes
Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
Spirituality and Liberation : Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988)
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
Miracles in mysticism don't occupy such an important place.
An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory.
My commandment is ‘Thou shall not stand idly by.’
Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.
A Jew Today (1978)
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
The Gates of the Forest (1964)
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
You must intervene. You must interfere. And that is actually the motto of human rights.
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom (2011)
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
It's up to you now, and we shall help you — that my past does not become your future.
Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.