Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
ELIE WIESELThe 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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
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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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I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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