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I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Humanist
Journalist
Judaic Scholar
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Philosopher
Political Activist
Professor
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Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.
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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.
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I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.
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Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.
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Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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Writing should not be routine writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
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I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
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My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.
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[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner sovereignty, inner independence, inner freedom. And inner strength to attain the absolute.
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