Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
ELIE WIESELWe 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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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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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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