Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
ELIE WIESELIn the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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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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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her 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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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