Every moment is a new beginning.
ELIE WIESELA 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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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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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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