To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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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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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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