We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
ELIE WIESELAnything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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