I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
ELIE WIESELTo forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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One person of integrity can make a difference.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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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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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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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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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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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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