Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
ELIE WIESELToday, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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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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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