Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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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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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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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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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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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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