"Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a……" — Elie Wiesel
"Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten."
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Elie Wiesel
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326 Quotes by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel has 326 quotes on this site.
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This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted,…
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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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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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms...
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of…
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Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at…
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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More Aggressor Quotes
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights.…
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity;…
— Thomas Aquinas
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
— Harold Lasswell
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
— Saddam Hussein
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars…
— Howard Zinn
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I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that,…
— Dominic Monaghan
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world.…
— Mark Twain
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment…
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