All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
ELIE WIESELBut where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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