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Elie Wiesel Quotes
Best Quotes by Elie Wiesel (Top 10)
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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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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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.
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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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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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More Elie Wiesel Quotes
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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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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Peace is our gift to each other.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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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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Some stories are true that never happened.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
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We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
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A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
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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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From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
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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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Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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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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