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.
ELIE WIESELHuman suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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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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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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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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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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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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Anything 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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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