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Elie Wiesel

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As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p...
RON CARPENTER JR. The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can app...
JORGE RAMOS The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d...
THERESE MAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN Life is a competition to eliminate fear and doubts to double our life to live better not bitter in t...
NAZIM AMBALATH I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars...
MADELINE L'ENGLE Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.
PARUL WADHWA It is well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little more courage, more love, ...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.
AULIQ ICE To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming.

T...
ELIE WIESEL He wanted to show her how to live, even after he was gone.
KASS MORGAN LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT ƸӜƷ
M.G. WELLS Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Life is so short, and love is so big. Too big for life! That's why, when you love someone, they'd be...
C. JOYBELL C. How to live life;If we live each day as if it will be our very last,one day we will be absolutely co...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I was over four years in different camps with people from 15 nations: Jews, Gentiles, Gypsies, commu...
SIMON WIESENTHAL Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear...
AVIJEET DAS War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER She always believed love was good and hate was much better. But, indifference would’ve made her a ...
A.A. GUPTE Romance is like having to go through security at airports in order to get on the plane.
BOBBY W. MILLER work. play. passion.
JIM CLARK Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for no...
CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.
KAREN MARIE MONING Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p...
JANE BENNETT Greet Sunrise.Salute Sunset.Embrace life your own unique journey has begun
HANS FLEISCHER i don't trust or have a faith in anything but i just know very well that my past experience so i do ...
HEM KUMAR PUN Live your life with love in your heart, and no matter what people say or may think help others and l...
MIKE BOLTON Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain.
ASA DON BROWN Responsibility is the admission that you have a role in this game called life.
ASA DON BROWN Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind.
ASA DON BROWN I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow...
ASA DON BROWN Our human quest is to survive; our spiritual quest is to unite.
ASA DON BROWN Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices.
ASA DON BROWN But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?"
"I'm not human," he sai...
RACHEL HARTMAN I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS Trust might be the only solution.
NEIL TIMOTHY P. EDILLON The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ...
NATALIE GOLDBERG When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR Don't put your life on hold for someone, or you'll wake up at forty-two with an empty house and a te...
LEAH READER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Maybe it's not finding a reason, it's trusting that there is one.
ANONOMYOUS. Life isn’t about deserving.” I closed my eyes and sighed. “Aren’t you the one always spoutin...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. HOWE From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"...
ELIE WIESEL Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...
ROBERT GREENE Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po...
LISA KLEYPAS

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ELIE WIESEL I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
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ELIE WIESEL 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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ELIE WIESEL Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by...
ELIE WIESEL I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot...
ELIE WIESEL Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such...
ELIE WIESEL I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of N...
ELIE WIESEL What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, exc...
ELIE WIESEL This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak,...
ELIE WIESEL Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
ELIE WIESEL A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
ELIE WIESEL Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
ELIE WIESEL It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon wh...
ELIE WIESEL I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestin...
ELIE WIESEL I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESEL Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
ELIE WIESEL Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each o...
ELIE WIESEL Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESEL When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can ...
ELIE WIESEL When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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ELIE WIESEL I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story ...
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ELIE WIESEL We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the torment...
ELIE WIESEL No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only ...
ELIE WIESEL Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know ...
ELIE WIESEL I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Viol...
ELIE WIESEL I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something...
ELIE WIESEL Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
ELIE WIESEL My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to ...
ELIE WIESEL There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when w...
ELIE WIESEL There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
ELIE WIESEL Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
ELIE WIESEL Peace is our gift to each other.
ELIE WIESEL No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only ...
ELIE WIESEL I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts m...
ELIE WIESEL I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or q...
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ELIE WIESEL God made man because He loves stories.
ELIE WIESEL That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kin...
ELIE WIESEL Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
ELIE WIESEL In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
ELIE WIESEL once a refugee, always a refugee.
ELIE WIESEL One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.
ELIE WIESEL I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
ELIE WIESEL To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESEL When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuan...
ELIE WIESEL If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.
ELIE WIESEL Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
ELIE WIESEL Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long nig...
ELIE WIESEL Think higher, feel deeper.
ELIE WIESEL I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
ELIE WIESEL Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.
ELIE WIESEL If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.
ELIE WIESEL There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin...
ELIE WIESEL When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can al...
ELIE WIESEL I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
ELIE WIESEL One person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESEL Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night se...
ELIE WIESEL His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone el...
ELIE WIESEL I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
ELIE WIESEL We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with i...
ELIE WIESEL Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is m...
ELIE WIESEL If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that ...
ELIE WIESEL I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, defor...
ELIE WIESEL Look at these towers, passerby, and try to imagine what they really mean – what they symbolize –...
ELIE WIESEL The letter was a very special letter, and it touched me, ... I said, 'How can I say no?'
ELIE WIESEL I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him...
ELIE WIESEL I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
ELIE WIESEL In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to h...
ELIE WIESEL What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy,...
ELIE WIESEL At this moment, Israel fights for her existence,
ELIE WIESEL I am so in favor of being involved in other people's causes, other people's fights. If a people is o...
ELIE WIESEL I had a teacher that always told me, 'Don't promise, because if you promise, you must keep it.' I pr...
ELIE WIESEL We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers kno...
ELIE WIESEL [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL That is my major preoccupation /memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kin...
ELIE WIESEL In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
ELIE WIESEL I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
ELIE WIESEL I have to wonder about people who compare Israelis to Nazis.
ELIE WIESEL The Time of the Uprooted
ELIE WIESEL In any case, he had bungled his life. Bad husband, bad father, bad lover: failure all along the line...
ELIE WIESEL It's not there just to enjoy.
ELIE WIESEL On a strictly military level, the operation is a success. For that, and for his brave decision to pu...
ELIE WIESEL It's something that happens once in a lifetime, ... It would be silly on anyone's part to say it doe...
ELIE WIESEL Never have the relations between Jews and Catholics been as good.
ELIE WIESEL My faceless neighbor spoke up:

“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he wi...
ELIE WIESEL He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in th...
ELIE WIESEL Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that plac...
ELIE WIESEL For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
ELIE WIESEL One day when we came to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wa...
ELIE WIESEL It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish ...
ELIE WIESEL No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
ELIE WIESEL I always believed that to listen to a witness is to become a witness.
ELIE WIESEL Night. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
ELIE WIESEL From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me...
ELIE WIESEL We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn...
ELIE WIESEL Never shall I forget that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, ... Nev...
ELIE WIESEL The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
ELIE WIESEL If there is a crisis in the world, the U.N. should send a task force immediately, within 24 hours,
ELIE WIESEL Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other...
ELIE WIESEL Terrorism knows no borders. Therefore, opposition to terrorism must know no borders.
ELIE WIESEL Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life
ELIE WIESEL Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
ELIE WIESEL We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it...
ELIE WIESEL It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Sometimes it takes time for the words to become more than word...
ELIE WIESEL I write to understand as much as to be understood
ELIE WIESEL I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We m...
ELIE WIESEL But you get used to anything.
ELIE WIESEL After all, God is God because he remembers.
ELIE WIESEL The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference
ELIE WIESEL Watchman, what of the night? So many victims in so many places need help. We need, above all, to be ...
ELIE WIESEL They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people w...
ELIE WIESEL Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?
ELIE WIESEL For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and f...
ELIE WIESEL For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequen...
ELIE WIESEL I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We m...
ELIE WIESEL Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging o...
ELIE WIESEL Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
ELIE WIESEL We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the torment...
ELIE WIESEL Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
ELIE WIESEL It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionis...
ELIE WIESEL When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childho...
ELIE WIESEL If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, le...
ELIE WIESEL I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the...
ELIE WIESEL It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.
ELIE WIESEL Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming.

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ELIE WIESEL I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.
ELIE WIESEL There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gr...
ELIE WIESEL We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subse...
ELIE WIESEL It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He...
ELIE WIESEL From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"...
ELIE WIESEL Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
ELIE WIESEL For me, every hour is grace.
ELIE WIESEL I never teach the same course twice.
ELIE WIESEL When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
ELIE WIESEL Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
ELIE WIESEL Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulf...
ELIE WIESEL There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two...
ELIE WIESEL I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see somethin...
ELIE WIESEL The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heav...
ELIE WIESEL I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
ELIE WIESEL For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
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TORSTEN WIESEL Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.
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ELIE METCHNIKOFF Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chanc...
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ELIE WURTMAN There is an abundance of creative talent in Jerusalem that has yet to be explored. By focusing on me...
ELIE WURTMAN I've never had negative feedback.
ELIE WADE We gave them the information, and they wrote the script. They did everything.
ELIE WADE We make mortgage loans, so one of the things we put on the message is a list of things you need to b...
ELIE WADE I knew it was wrong. I did not have the intent to violate the law, but I knew it was wrong.
ELIE NAKOUZI I did it because I felt I was doing some good for the patients.
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