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.
ELIE WIESELTo forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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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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