Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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.
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.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
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.
The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
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.
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.
It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.
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