listography: quotes (Elie Wiesel (4-14-10))

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quotes (Elie Wiesel (4-14-10))

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
"Whenever 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."
"There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you."
My humanity is defined by the humanity of others...?
The truth is stronger than any lie. Lies will be forgotten; the truth will be remembered.
Listen, teach, speak eloquently.
The most tragic being in the Bible is God.
When one thing happens anywhere, we must respond everywhere.
Silence never helps the victim, only the victimizer.
Whatever we do...must be endowed with moral justification.
I am not free to give up my freedom.
Whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper. Hope will become not only a necessity, but a possibility.
There is more in the human being to celebrate than to degrade.
In every level of education, morality shall prevail.
It is by the otherness of the other that I define myself.
What kind of person do I want to be, not what do I want to be when I grow up.
When one person is a victim of injustice anywhere, we can never choose silence as an option.

apr 14 2010 ∞
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