Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELTo forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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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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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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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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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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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