Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELEmphasis 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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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 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.
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