In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
ELIE WIESELHuman beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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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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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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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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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Think higher, feel deeper.
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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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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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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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