Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESELSilence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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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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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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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