Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.