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Inspirational Quotes by Elie Wiesel

44 Inspirational quotes by Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel reminds us that adults can bring hurt while children hold hope. His words say that silence can be deadly, that remembering the past is brave, and that we must stand against hatred instead of staying quiet. The quotes mix sorrow with a call to create light even in dark times.

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The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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The danger lies in forgetting.

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It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

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When adults wage war, children perish.

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It always hurts when you lose a secret.

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My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims

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The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

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We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

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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 don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

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I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

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..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment -…

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Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes…

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“But where shall I start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But…

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Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of…

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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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How can a human being be illegal?

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Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

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Every moment is a new beginning.

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After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

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Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

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

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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

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Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

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Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

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Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

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Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

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You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

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Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

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“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.”

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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

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