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
ELIE WIESELOnce upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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