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
ELIE WIESELMy faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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