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Humans Quotes by Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel reminds us that memory builds culture and keeps hope alive. He warns that indifference can be worse than despair and that suffering anywhere touches everyone. He also speaks against the death penalty, calling it incompatible with humanity.

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Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

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No human being is illegal.

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Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

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How can a human being be illegal?

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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

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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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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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Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

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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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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure…

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Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human…

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It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

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They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss…

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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

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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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Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

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Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of…

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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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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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We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are…

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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 don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education…

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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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The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others.…

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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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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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All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

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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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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is…

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

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Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever…

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I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only…

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With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I…

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My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the…

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