What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
ELIE WIESELI 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at 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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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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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