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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
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[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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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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When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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.
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Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
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Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.
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A voice behind me asked, Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now? and a voice within me answered: Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows.
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