Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
ELIE WIESELI 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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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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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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