No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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.
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.
Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.
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.
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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.
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
"Not to remember is not an option."
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