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I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish trust - which is vain and illusion - which is dangerous.
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Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.
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Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
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I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
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My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.
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I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
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In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
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