We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
ELIE WIESELNever shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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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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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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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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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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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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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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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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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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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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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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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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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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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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My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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