What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
ELIE WIESELLife is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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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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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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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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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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 was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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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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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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