Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
ELIE WIESELBite 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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For 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.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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