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" It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel. "

Elie Wiesel

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Israel

Jewish

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" If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope. "

" Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone. "

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World

Alone

" When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. "

" I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born. "

" No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. "

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Living

" When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world. "

" I never teach the same course twice. "

" Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. "

" Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. "

" I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. "

" When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. "

" It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. "

" That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. "

" I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. "

" I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it. "

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Teacher

Words

" No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. "

" I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. "

" Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. "

" I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics. "

" Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. "

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Learning

Jewish