Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
ELIE WIESELyou can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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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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