Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 2

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• ... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons in the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's [woman's] right to live.

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  Children, Men, Offering

  Elie Wiesel (1993). “Sages and Dreamers: Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Portraits and Legends”, Touchstone Books

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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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  Strong, Hate, Love Is

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• We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

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  Success, Teacher, Teaching

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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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  Beautiful, Skinny, Contradiction

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• When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

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  Death, Yoga, Heaven

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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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  Positivity, Hands, Waiting

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

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  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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• I write to understand as much as to be understood.

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  Writing, Understanding, Literature

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.12, Schocken

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• There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

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  Integrity, Character, Differences

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.143, Macmillan

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• Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

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  Men, Suffering, Concern

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.171, Schocken

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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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  Unique, Humanity, Criminals

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.

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  Beautiful, People, Essentials

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• There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

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  Children, Freedom, Integrity

  Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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• The danger lies in forgetting.

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  Lying, Forget, Danger

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• Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

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  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

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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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  Pain, Compassion, People

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• To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

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  Holocaust, Forget

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• Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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  Bystanders, Holocaust, Remembrance

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

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  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

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  Racism, People, Want

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

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  Children, Believe, School

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

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  Witness

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• Think higher, feel deeper.

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  Thinking, Deeper, Feels

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• Every moment is a new beginning.

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  Inspirational, Positive, New Beginnings

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.75, Schocken

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  Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Despair, Remember

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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