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.
ELIE WIESELThere may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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