Quote by Elie Wiesel
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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe. – Elie Wiesel

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No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. – Elie Wiesel

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Faith
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Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. – Elie Wiesel

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History
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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. – Elie Wiesel

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The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. – Diodorus Siculus, c.20BC

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Religion

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Religion

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. – Carol P. Christ

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Religion

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Religion

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Success and failure are equally disastrous. – Tennessee Williams

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Failure

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage. – Hesiod

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Age

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them – and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it. – Jodie Foster

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Society

The answer to poverty is not charity, the solution to abortion is not laws, the key to saving the environment is not recycling. As Thoreau so wisely noted, we must strike at the root, not hack at the branches. – Terri Guillemets, “Comfort is not always the best medicine,” 1995

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Perspective