"I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw, and his quote was, ‘the path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.’ I know it’s not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it’s an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic."
– Jewish Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat), Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue 1014, Nov. 30,2006; p.64
"Can’t they tell they are giving themselves away? Adults tell you there are no gremlins or ghosts. They tell you once or twice, and that’s it. But with God, they tell you over and over again. So He must exist – and He must be very powerful for them to fear Him so greatly."
– Russian poet, dissident Irina Ratushinskaya