A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELWhat is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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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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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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.
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