There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESELEvery 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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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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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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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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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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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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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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