The best Quotes by Elie Wiesel

The best Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Memories Culture

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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Bullying Neutrality

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Revolution Bullying

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

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.

National Socialism

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No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

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Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

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Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

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Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

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New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

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In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5

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We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

Michael Lawson in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

Stanley James in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

Colleen Hoover in Verity

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

Margot Robbie

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Crime New York City

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city.

Kit Harington

Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

Emilia Clarke

Rose always used to tell me that keeping quiet when someone's hurt you isn't kind, it's stupid. I might be useless, and I might be slow... but I'm not stupid!

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Bullying happens because weak people need to prop up their ego by beating up or humiliating others.

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Charlie: "You didn't have to do that. I'm used to people saying stuff about me."
Nick: "No. But you shouldn't have to be. People shouldn't be saying stuff about you in the first place. You shouldn't have to put up with anything like that."

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Goldie Wilson: "Stand tall, boy! Have some respect for yourself. Don't you know if you let people walk over you now, they'll walk over you for the rest of your life."

Back to the Future

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies, it's because of a deeper-rooted issue. Either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

Khloé Kardashian in The Kardashians

I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.

I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

Jackie Chan

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

Natalie Portman

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School Bullying

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Memories Death Grief & Condolence

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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Memories Moments

The best moments in life are the ones that make us smile when we think about them.

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Memories Laughing & Smile

Its so hard to forget someone, who gave you so much to remember.

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Memories Breakup Forgetting

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Mahatma Gandhi

Bacteria is the only culture some people have.

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Foolishness Culture Funny Quotes

There can be no balance with a hand on the scale.

Swain, the Noxian Grand General in League of Legends

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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Lajos Kossuth

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You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

Charlie Sheen

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Joey: "My agent thinks I should have a name that's more neutral."
Chandler: "Joey... Switzerland?"

Chandler Bing in Friends - Season 1 Episode 21

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Neutrality Switzerland

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Power Revolution

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

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Revolution History

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

George Orwell in 1984

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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Revolution Motivation Good & Evil

Vogel: "What does the diary tell you that it doesn't tell us?"
Dr. Henry Jones: "It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!"

Henry Jones in Indiana Jones - 3: and the Last Crusade

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National Socialism

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Martin Niemöller

National Socialism

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

George Steiner

National Socialism

We must never forget she was just 21 years old when she was killed by the Nazis, but she possessed a life-affirming personality no dictatorship could ever silence.

Frank McDonough - about Sophie Scholl

National Socialism

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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