Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
ELIE WIESELHuman suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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