Think higher, feel deeper.
ELIE WIESELEmphasis 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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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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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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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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