Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELEducation in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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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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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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