A giant passes: Memorable quotes from Elie Wiesel
July 3, 2016“No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.” (Nobel peace prize acceptance speech, 1986)
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” (Nobel peace prize acceptance speech, 1986)
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” (“Night,” 1960)
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death.”(Interview with US media, 1986)
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” (Interview with Parade Magazine, 1992)
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” (“The Gates of the Forest,” 1966)
“To forget the victims means to kill them a second time. So I couldn’t prevent the first death. I surely must be capable of saving them from a second death.” (Interview with National Public Radio, 2012)
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” Wiesel’s words etched in stone at the entrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
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