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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Elie Wiesel

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Dreams Future Hope Live Man Reflection
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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Angry Faith God Lost Moments Myself Reason
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
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
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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Himself Place Refugee Time
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
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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Hate Health Persistence Religious
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
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Allow Difference Hate Love Power
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
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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Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
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

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