In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
ELIE WIESELA religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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 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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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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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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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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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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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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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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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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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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