To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESELHuman suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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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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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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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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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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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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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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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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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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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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