American - Novelist | September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Elie Wiesel
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We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
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