Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELI 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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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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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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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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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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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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Every 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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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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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 moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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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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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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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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