"We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah."
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"I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power."
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"All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people."
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"I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that."
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"Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?"
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"Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners."
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"It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so."
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"I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story."
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"My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers."
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"Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed."
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"I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?"
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"The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet."
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"You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well."
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"More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth."
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"Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency."
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"I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary."
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"I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war."
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"I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day."
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"I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice."
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"It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably."
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