“History teaches us no longer to put our trust in those revelations, utopias and ideologies which promise universal bliss, proclaim the one and only possible path to this bliss and consequently make that path obligatory.

But despite the monstrous insanity, despite the suicidally pernicious forces which today rule my native land and a considerable portion of the earth, I hope that in the next century both my fellow countrymen and all the people in the world will live better, more reasonably, than we and our forefathers lived.”