Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELAnything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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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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