Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
ELIE WIESEL
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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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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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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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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