Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
ELIE WIESELI came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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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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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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We 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.
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Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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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