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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Elie Wiesel

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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Baby Better Burn God Yourself
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
ELIE WIESEL

Group Person Suffering Yourself
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESEL

Death Forget Kill Time
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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Angel Care Dangerous Demon Myself Word
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
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 WIESEL

Education Hate Repeat Violence
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
ELIE WIESEL

Himself Place Refugee Time
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESEL

Feeling Myself Understand Writing
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
ELIE WIESEL

Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
ELIE WIESEL

Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
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
ELIE WIESEL

Action Death Live Memories Responsibility
Think higher, feel deeper.
ELIE WIESEL

Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking

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