Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELEvery 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.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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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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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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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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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