Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
ELIE WIESELI 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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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 don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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