A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELNever shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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 write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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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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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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