Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].
Think higher, feel deeper.
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.
People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
Every moment is a new beginning.
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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.
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.
When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.
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.
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
The danger lies in forgetting.
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.
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
"Not to remember is not an option."
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