This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
ELIE WIESELBite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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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.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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