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.
ELIE WIESELThe most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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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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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 don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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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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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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