Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
ELIE WIESELBut 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
-
-
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESEL -
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
ELIE WIESEL -
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
ELIE WIESEL -
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESEL -
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
ELIE WIESEL -
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
ELIE WIESEL -
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
ELIE WIESEL -
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
ELIE WIESEL -
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.
ELIE WIESEL -
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
ELIE WIESEL -
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
ELIE WIESEL -
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
ELIE WIESEL -
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
ELIE WIESEL -
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
ELIE WIESEL -
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
ELIE WIESEL