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Them Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the…
- For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those…
- Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one…
- 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…
- One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
- Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and…
- No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment…
- The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory…
- I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them,…
- 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…
- No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
- 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…
- To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
- For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has…
- 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…
- And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise.…
- 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…
- 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…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster