Human beings Quotes by Elie Wiesel

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

— Elie Wiesel

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

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How can a human being be illegal?

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

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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

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The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

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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…

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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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Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

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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…

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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…

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I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with…

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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…

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I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One…

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In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was…

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I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably…

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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…

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Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this,…

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The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects…

— Elie Wiesel