I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
ELIE WIESELWhen a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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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.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Bite 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.
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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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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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