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• Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, World, Strange

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Grieving, Giving

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• When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Yoga, Heaven

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• Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

  Elie Wiesel

  Attitude, Yesterday, Today

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• Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wells, Fanatics

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.188, Schocken

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• People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Stories

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• Think higher, feel deeper.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Deeper, Feels

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• Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

  Elie Wiesel

  Racism, People, Want

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Silence, Philosopher

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Testament”, p.151, Souvenir Press

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• 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 influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, School

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every moment is a new beginning.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Positive, New Beginnings

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.75, Schocken

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  Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Despair, Remember

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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• There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Integrity, Character, Differences

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.143, Macmillan

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• All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

  Elie Wiesel

  Faith, Religious, Race

  "Have You Learned The Most Important Lesson Of All?". Parade Magazine, www.thehypertexts.com. May 24, 1992.

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• Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Heart, Past

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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• 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 and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. 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 are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Freedom, Integrity

  Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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• Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

  Elie Wiesel

  Good Friend, Remember, Sin

  "Changing world of commencement speakers" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2008.

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• We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Success, Teacher, Teaching

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• 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 of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

  Elie Wiesel

  Gratitude, Mean, Night

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.172, Schocken

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

  Elie Wiesel

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

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• In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Quests, Beautiful Words

  "Oprah Talks to Elie Wiesel". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• I write to understand as much as to be understood.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Understanding, Literature

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.12, Schocken

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