💬 Quotes

"My memory of those months is a nightmare of harrowing experiences, punctuated by periods of semi-consciousness and utter despair."

"The public is culpably ignorant of what goes on behind the locked doors of our asylums; and this ignorance breeds cruelty."

"To cure the diseased mind, one must first touch the human heart with understanding and sympathy rather than chains and padded cells."

"Though my mind had wandered into the darkest corners of despair, it eventually found its way back to the light, proving that recovery is possible."

"The Jewish question persists wherever Jews live in appreciable numbers. Wherever it does not exist, it is brought in by Jews in the course of their migrations."

"The world resounds with the cry against the Jews, and this cry has awakened the slumbering idea."

"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the globe large enough to satisfy the rightful requirements of a nation; the rest we shall manage for ourselves."

"We are a people—one people. We have honestly striven everywhere to merge ourselves in the social life of surrounding communities and to preserve only the faith of our fathers. It is not permitted us."

"No one can guess what the rich and powerless Jews of today would give if a miraculous interposition would evoke a nation, strong and great, upon the soil of our fathers."

"The Jews who wish for a State will have one. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes."

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."

"History is not just a list of dates and kings, but the biography of civilizations through the mechanism of challenge and response."

"The language of challenge and response is the language of history. It is through facing and overcoming severe trials that a society stimulates its creative minority to generate growth."

"As civilizations grow, the creative minority becomes a dominant minority, relying more on force than on intellectual and spiritual leadership, which initiates the process of social disintegration."

"Mankind achieves civilization not by ecological luck, but by responding to punishing environments that demand extraordinary exertion."

"The supreme manifestation of spiritual progress is the transformation of a universal state into a universal church, carrying the soul of a dying civilization into a higher cultural order."

"If God exists, whence comes evil? If He does not exist, whence comes good?"

"Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it."

"The very opposite of what they desire is what the wicked achieve; for they strive after happiness, but wickedness itself cuts them off from it."

"O you who sow your seed in the fields of human thought, why do you seek a harvest of vain glory when you can have the sure rewards of philosophy?"