I come from a people who gave the ten commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shalt not be a perpetrator; thou shalt not be a victim; and thou shalt never, but never, be a bystander.


speech to the German Bundestag, 1998, quoted in his own speech to the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, 26 July 2000


I come from a people who gave the ten commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt...

I come from a people who gave the ten commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt...

I come from a people who gave the ten commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt...

I come from a people who gave the ten commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt...