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.
ELIE WIESELWe 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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