"To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all."

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Source : Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press

Elie Wiesel

#Sin Quotes #Silent Quotes #Indifferent Quotes

“If you feel you can't trust anyone, then try trusting in yourself.”
“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.”
“I think that an actor who is working should be a happy actor.”
“I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.”
“The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.”
“The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.”

Source : Peter Bodo (1995). “The Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in a Harsh New World of Professional Tennis”, Scribner Book Company
“The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.”
“If Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania wins, for instance, it will tell Republicans that their own brand hasn't been hurt too badly by [Donald] Trump's negatives.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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