In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
ELIE WIESEL
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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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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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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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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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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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