In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
ELIE WIESELBetter 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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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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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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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