To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
ELIE WIESELThink higher, feel deeper.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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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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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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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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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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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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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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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