I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESELA religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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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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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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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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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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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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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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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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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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