Quotes about Humanity

Even if I wrote on nothing else, it would never be enough, even if all the survivors did nothing but write about their experiences, it would still not be enough. *Response when asked how much longer is he going to write about the Holocaust.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

One German officer lived in the house opposite ours. He had a room with the Kahn family. They said he was a charming man - calm, likable, polite, and sympathetic. Three days after he moved in he brought Madame Kahn a box of chocolates. The optimists rejoiced.

To forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

How do I find God?' you ask. I do not know how, but I do know where-in my fellow man.

Once we begin to regard the well-being of others as integral to our own, we overcome the paralysis of competing rights, which rationalizes innocent suffering.

The destiny of people cannot be reduced to a sociological or scientific formula; it contains mysterious, if not mystical factors.

Do you know what that means? 'Man of God.' An odd name, isn't it? It teaches us that what we call angels are only men. There are no real angels. And men? Oh, there are men, all right, unfortunately for the angels and for ourselves. And what is worse is that they are real.

I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.

Judge God. He created the universe and made justice stem from injustices. He brought it about that a people should attain happiness through tears, that the freedom of a nation, like that of a man, should be a monument built upon a pile, a foundation of dead bodies…

When you give bread to a beggar we give him that taste of paradise which only the poor can savor.