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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.

Elie Wiesel

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
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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Better Break Decision Heart Broken Oneself Time
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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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Appearance Beautiful Contradiction Human Illegal Right Wrong
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
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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Believe God Illusion Man Spark
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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Education Learning Substitute Word
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
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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Action Death Live Memories Responsibility

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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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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