To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
ELIE WIESELWhat is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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 Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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