Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
ELIE WIESELI don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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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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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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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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