If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death.
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
Elie Wiesel Circled--Buchenwald Concentration Camp
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 the victim.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.