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Human Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
- 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…
- Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
- No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny,…
- 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…
- I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
- How can a human being be illegal?
- I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely.…
- The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?
- I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never…
- No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
- Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
- Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
- I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing…
- Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
- No human being is illegal.
- I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second,…
- They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain…
- Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
- Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant…
- In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.
- Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — 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
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong