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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.
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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.
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
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A man can laugh while he suffers.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
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I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.
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