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.
ELIE WIESELOur obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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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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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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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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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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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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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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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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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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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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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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