624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

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    And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

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    Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

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    [Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

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    Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

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    Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

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    There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

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    The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

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    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.

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