In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
ELIE WIESELIn order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
ELIE WIESELOnly the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
ELIE WIESELIn the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
ELIE WIESELThe philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
ELIE WIESELThis is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
ELIE WIESELTake sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
ELIE WIESELEmphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
ELIE WIESELWhen a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
ELIE WIESELA religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELyou 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.
ELIE WIESELI 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.
ELIE WIESELHuman beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
ELIE WIESELThe most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
ELIE WIESELIn the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
ELIE WIESELUltimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
ELIE WIESELI 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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