I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESELFor 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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