My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
ELIE WIESEL
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
ELIE WIESEL