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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Elie Wiesel

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem
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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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Oneself Person
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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Education Learning Substitute Word
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Life Meaning Obligation Ourselves Passive
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man

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