Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
ELIE WIESELGratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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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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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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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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