To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
ELIE WIESELEvery moment contains a spark of eternity.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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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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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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