A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELThe most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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