An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
ELIE WIESELNever shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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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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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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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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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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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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