First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks. Elie Wiesel More Quotes by Elie Wiesel More Quotes From Elie Wiesel No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal? Elie Wiesel skinny contradiction beautiful All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. Elie Wiesel race religious faith No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately. Elie Wiesel gratitude night mean In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. Elie Wiesel compassion suffering faces Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny. Elie Wiesel turns destiny humans Every moment is a new beginning. Elie Wiesel new-beginnings positive inspirational What is man? Elie Wiesel ubuntu men peace you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares. Elie Wiesel groups care suffering There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs. Elie Wiesel freedom integrity children Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel exercise fitness motivational I write to understand as much as to be understood. Elie Wiesel understanding literature writing Think higher, feel deeper. Elie Wiesel deeper feels thinking 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 holocaust anger faith Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being. Elie Wiesel gratitude cherish humanity In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God. Elie Wiesel grieving giving thinking The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence. Elie Wiesel philosopher silence In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people. Elie Wiesel essentials beautiful people For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream. Elie Wiesel injustice scream easy There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference. Elie Wiesel differences integrity character For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future. Elie Wiesel imagination hope mean
