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 WIESELEducation in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
ELIE WIESELA 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 WIESELA religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELIn the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
ELIE WIESELEvery 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.
ELIE WIESELOne person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESELI swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
ELIE WIESELEvery 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 WIESELEvery moment contains a spark of eternity.
ELIE WIESELEternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESELBite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
ELIE WIESELWhat hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
ELIE WIESELWhat is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
ELIE WIESELI 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.
ELIE WIESELWe 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.
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 WIESEL