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.
ELIE WIESELGratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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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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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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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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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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My 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.
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