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- This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and…
- Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
- 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…
- For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those…
- Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other…
- 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…
- With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe…
- 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…
- My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And…
- It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims
- Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and…
- You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.
- In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the…
- All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience…
- No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment…
- Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
- Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
- If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as…
- The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory…
- Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
- Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
- A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.
- Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of…
- What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
- No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle