Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
ELIE WIESELThe 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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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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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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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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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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