Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESELEven in darkness it is possible to create light.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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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.
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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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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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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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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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