Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
ELIE WIESELAn indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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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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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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 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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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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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