Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
ELIE WIESELJust as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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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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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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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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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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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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