Elie Wiesel Quotes
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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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.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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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.
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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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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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