Elie Wiesel
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Simple steps are complex when manouvering.
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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