Elie Wiesel Quotes
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
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Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.
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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
