When you cannot defend freedom through peaceful means, you have to use arms to fight Nazism, dictatorship, chauvinism."
When you were responsible for the life of some 60,000 people, you don't leave and abandon the memory of them."
God is trying to blow out the candle, and I'm quickly trying to shield the flame, taking advantage of his brief inattention. To keep the flame flickering, even if only for a little while longer than he would wish.
On the Warsaw Ghetto uprising: It was a defensive action. We fought simply not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths.
On the Nazi gas chambers: These people went quietly and with dignity. It is an awesome thing, when one is going so quietly to one's death. It is definitely more difficult than to go out shooting.