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.
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
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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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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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.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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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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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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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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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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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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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Emphasis 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.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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