Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
ELIE WIESELWe believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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