When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
ELIE WIESELMankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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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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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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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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We 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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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