An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
ELIE WIESELMy faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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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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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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