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.
ELIE WIESELAnything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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