Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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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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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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