Without memory, there is no culture. Wit... by Elie Wiesel | We Heart Quotes

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

- Elie Wiesel

Other quotes by Elie Wiesel

Friendship Life

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

- Elie Wiesel

Knowledge

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

- Elie Wiesel

World Life

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

- Elie Wiesel

Despair

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

- Elie Wiesel

Home

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

- Elie Wiesel

Destruction Man

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

- Elie Wiesel

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