Character: Ernst Graeber

It is easy to condemn and be brave when you have nothing, he thought. But when you have something precious, the world is changing. Everything becomes easier, and harder, and sometimes quite unbearable.

In parting, you never know, I will get to see again.

They awakened in him some painful and hopeless longing, which for a long time did not leave him even after he had already slammed the book closed.

Not yet, thought He, the Hope will come back when the pain will disappear.

We justify the necessity of all that we do. When we bomb cities is a strategic necessity, and when the bombing of our cities is a vile crime.

The world is not divided into shelves with labels. And man even more so.

- And anything matter?
- Yes, it does - [...]. Something that we're not dead, ' he said. And the fact that we're not dead.

If everyone is not trying to necessarily convince another of the truth, people may be less likely to be fought.

If not to bring to life a particular claim, whatever get will be the perfect gift.

It is sometimes possible to ask only when asked another.

The Church is the only dictatorship that has survived the ages.

We are! Terrified of his own feelings. And when they occur - are willing to consider themselves cheaters.

Conscience usually bothers not those who are to blame.

He knew many kinds of fear: fear of a painful and dark; a fear from which your breath stops and stiffens the body, and the last great fear - the fear of a living creature before death; but this was different - creeping, seizing the throat, uncertain and
threatening, sticky fear that if you stain and decomposes, elusive and irresistible, - the fear of helplessness and pernicious doubt: it was fear for corrupting another innocent hostage, the victim of lawlessness, fear of arbitrariness, the power of automatic and inhumanity, black fear of our time.