Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
Think higher, feel deeper.
Every moment is a new beginning.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)
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.
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
The danger lies in forgetting.
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.
"Not to remember is not an option."
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