Every moment is a new beginning.
ELIE WIESELHuman suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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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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