Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELIn the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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