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.
ELIE WIESEL
For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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