"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."
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"Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper."
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"Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century."
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"You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries."
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"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."
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"Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity."
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"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 the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success."
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"Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent."
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"I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz]."
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"Peace is our gift to each other."
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"Every moment contains a spark of eternity."
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"John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed."
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"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 any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death."
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"I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends."
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"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 irrevocably between horror and malediction."
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"In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die."
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"The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You dont die of it."
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"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
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"What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically."
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"Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere."
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