Every moment is a new beginning.
ELIE WIESELTake sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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