... in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation... consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I still have faith occasionally in the brotherhood of man, and in spite of all the tragedies that have intervened since [1945],... believe that sometime, somehow, all the nations of the world can work together for the common good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment to... them when they're 15 years old. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive ...contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up ...till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and... for mankind!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, underg...oes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »