What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
ELIE WIESELFor 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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you 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.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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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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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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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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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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Every moment is a new beginning.
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