Elie Wiesel Quotes About Genocide

Quotes about: Genocide

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Genocide, Destruction

• We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

  Elie Wiesel

  Depressing, People, Stories

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

• I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested.

  Elie Wiesel

  Differences, People, Holocaust

  Interview with Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

• I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

  Elie Wiesel

  Differences, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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