A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELThink higher, feel deeper.
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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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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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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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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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Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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