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Famous Elie Wiesel Quotes
“Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.”
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
“Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.”
“Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?”
“I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?”
“One person of integrity can make a difference.”
“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”
“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
“I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”
“Humanity would never tolerate it”
“You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.”
“Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.”
“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”
“Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.”
“The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.”
“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”
“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”
“Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.”