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.
ELIE WIESELUltimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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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We 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.
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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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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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