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.
ELIE WIESELyou 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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