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Elie Wiesel
American
Novelist
Born:
Sep 30
,
1928
Died:
Jul 2
,
2016
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You
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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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