"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."
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"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."
Elie Wiesel"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 does not remember betrays them again."
Elie Wiesel"No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions."
Elie Wiesel"No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."
Elie Wiesel"I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it."
Elie Wiesel"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
Elie Wiesel"It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed."
Elie Wiesel"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future."
Elie Wiesel"Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems."
Elie Wiesel"After all, God is God because he remembers."
Elie Wiesel"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."
Elie Wiesel"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
Elie Wiesel"Some stories are true that never happened."
Elie Wiesel"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."
Elie Wiesel"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."
Elie Wiesel"Peace is our gift to each other."
Elie Wiesel"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."
Elie Wiesel"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile."
Elie Wiesel"I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it."
Elie Wiesel"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity."
Elie Wiesel"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
Elie Wiesel"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."
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