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.
ELIE WIESELBecause I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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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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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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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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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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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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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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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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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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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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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