What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
ELIE WIESELEvery moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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.
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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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 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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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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you 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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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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We 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 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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