An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
ELIE WIESELyou can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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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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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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