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Elie Wiesel3 quotes
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel · 1986God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here. — Elie Wiesel · 1995The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death. It's indifference. — Elie Wiesel · 1986Alexander M. Bickel1 quote
No society, certainly not a large and heterogenous one, can fail in time to explode if it is deprived of the arts of compromise, if it knows no ways of muddling through. No good society can be unprincipled; and no viable society can be principle-ridden. — Alexander M. Bickel · 1962Emil Cioran1 quote
I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them. — Emil Cioran · 1973Hedda Sterne1 quote
For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away. — Hedda Sterne · 2007