Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
ELIE WIESELI have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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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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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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