Think higher, feel deeper.
ELIE WIESELWe 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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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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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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