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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Elie Wiesel

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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Crime Human Humanity Represent
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
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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Group Person Suffering Yourself
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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Imagination Invention Memories Myself People Time
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
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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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
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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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
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
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
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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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Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

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