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When adults wage war, children perish.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.
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A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.
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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
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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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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
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The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.
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Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
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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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Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering not to share them would mean to betray them.
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If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.
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I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
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