"It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles."

“The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.”

Source : Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.

“If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.”

“Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.”

“When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.”

“I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.”

“I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.”

“I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.”

“My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris