In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
ELIE WIESELOne person of integrity can make a difference.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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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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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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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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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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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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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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