I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESELFor 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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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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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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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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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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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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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… 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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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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