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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
American Novelist
Born: Sep 30, 1928
Died: Jul 2, 2016
Bible God Life Me People You
Related authors: Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft Herman Melville James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel
Silence Neutrality Oppressor Victim Sides Tormented Must Take Never Encourages Helps
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel
Time Injustice Must Prevent Never Fail Powerless Protest Times May
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Elie Wiesel
Love Love Is Hate Indifference Opposite
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. Elie Wiesel
Faith Collective Superior Religious Religious Faith Only Wrong Make Judgments Inferior Human Race Them Racists Human Race
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. Elie Wiesel
Future Memory Culture Society Would Would-Be No Future Civilization Without
Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself. Elie Wiesel
Will Group Herself Everyone Hates Hating Someone Himself Ultimately End Up Who
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. Elie Wiesel
Religion Women Political Men Men And Women Become Universe Must Because Persecuted Women Are Political Views Wherever Center Place Race Views Moment
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. Elie Wiesel
Gratitude Humanity Something Missing His Person Her
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. Elie Wiesel
Smile Time Me Gratitude Heart Grace Every Meet Someone Feel Hour Look His Each Each Time Her
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. Elie Wiesel
Thankful Attitude Gratitude Humanity Defined Something Almost Toward Missing His Person Her
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. Elie Wiesel
Life You World Changing Changing The World Once Must Protect Bring
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed. Elie Wiesel
War Disappointment Experience Nothing Believe Changed Those Tried About Given Through Write Message Became Greatest Us Who
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel
Life Love Friendship Risks Marks More Never Sharing Obsession Than Anything Even Deeply
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. Elie Wiesel
Future History People Car Our Ghetto Our People Sacrificed Altar Cattle Were The History Of Happened Deportation Which Fiery Mankind Meant Meant To Be Sealed Fast
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. Elie Wiesel
Life Death Remember My Life Telling Something Betrays Having Dead Devote Because Felt Does Survived Owe Anyone Decided Story Again Them Who
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. Elie Wiesel
Before Indifference Because Dies Actually
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. Elie Wiesel
Truth Memories Truth Is People Words Think Follow Shadows Objects Ideas Most Also Surround Precede Impulses Deeds Beings Desires
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. Elie Wiesel
Hope God Peace Gift Give Only Like Another
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. Elie Wiesel
You Soul Win Sometimes Lose Spirit Victories Even
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. Elie Wiesel
Moving On Remember Duty Despair Because Reject
In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody. Elie Wiesel
Me You Hate Society Too Everybody Only Any Fanatics Who
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. Elie Wiesel
God Religion Relationship Man
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Elie Wiesel
Man Destruction Only Prevent Annihilation Provoke
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Elie Wiesel
Hope Too Despair Other Given Only Come Human Just Human Beings Beings
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. Elie Wiesel
God Faith Anger Sometimes Lost Him Protest Been Closer Reason Moments
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. Elie Wiesel
Life Love Beautiful Girl My Life Tea Live Abnormal Write Beautiful Girls Talk Survived To Love Toast Holocaust
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