Elie Wiesel Quotes

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.

Elie Wiesel

• Suffering
• Silence

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• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • Best
  • Story

• Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Not Knowing

• During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Character
  • Success
  • Said

• It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Feeling
  • Universe
  • Thought

• I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Time
  • Important
  • Age

• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • High
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

  

  Rachel True
  • I Can
  • Lead
  • Project

• We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Bad
  • History
  • Organization

• The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Death

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Silence

• I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

  

  Cindy Margolis
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Science

• Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Suffering
  • Values
  • Socialism

• 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.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Suffering
  • Silence