In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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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 is a new beginning.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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