To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESELAn indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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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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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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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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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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