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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.
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There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.
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No human being is illegal.
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Whenever an angel says Be not afraid! you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say I hate you, it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.
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The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.
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Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.
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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
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What I do, I want to do with all my being.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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