The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
ELIE WIESELI don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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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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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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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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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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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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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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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and 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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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