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.
ELIE WIESELWe 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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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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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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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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Emphasis 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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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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