A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELBecause I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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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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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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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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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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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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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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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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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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