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• 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.

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  Thinking, Few Words, Substitutes

  "The Elevator Interview – Elie Wiesel (Exclusive)". The Algemeiner Interview, www.algemeiner.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

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  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Overcoming

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• A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

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  Pain, Compassion, People

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• To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

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  Holocaust, Would Be, Forget

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Suffering, Conclusion, Consent

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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  Bystanders, Holocaust, Remembrance

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• 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.

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  Unique, Humanity, Criminals

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

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  Sparks, Moments, Eternity

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• Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

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  Men, Suffering, Concern

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.171, Schocken

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• Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

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  Education, Keys, Hatred

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• The danger lies in forgetting.

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  Lying, Forget, Danger

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• An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

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  Suffering, Indifference, Humans

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• Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

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  Pain, Enemy, Benefits

  The Perils of Indifference, delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C.

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• [Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

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  Madness, Said, Certainty

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

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  Holocaust, Forget

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• 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.

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  Children, Hate, Men

  "Making Sense of a Senseless World" by Emily Bennington, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Memories, Evil, Dawn

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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• I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

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  Teacher, Thinking, Profession

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• Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

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  America, Israel, Hearing

  "Bibi's dilemma: Netanyahu can't avoid critics as speech to Congress looms" by Paul Alster, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2015.

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• In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

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  Illusion, Vain, Dangerous

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.8, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Life, Book, Evil

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.

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  Blessing, Men, Years

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• 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.

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  Dream, Night, Men

  Elie Wiesel (1961). “Dawn”

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• Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

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  Angel, Worry, Way

  "Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy". Book by Robert McAfee Brown, 1988.

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• This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

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  Prayer, Tears, Roles

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