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.
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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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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.
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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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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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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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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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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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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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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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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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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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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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