Elie Wiesel Quotes About Holocaust

Quotes about: Holocaust

• Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Freedom, Philosophy, Military

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

• 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

  Peace, Bystanders, History

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

• For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Holocaust, Bears

  "Elie Wiesel, Nobel winner and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 87" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2016.

• To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Forget

• I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, People, Holocaust

• All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

  Elie Wiesel

  Faith, Religious, Race

  "Have You Learned The Most Important Lesson Of All?". Parade Magazine, www.thehypertexts.com. May 24, 1992.

• To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Would Be, Forget

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

• Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Holocaust, Remembrance

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

• Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Holocaust, Healthy

  "Legends of Our Time". Book by Elie Wiesel, 1968.

• I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Holocaust, Trials

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspiring, Memories, Civilization

  "Amb. Nancy Brinker: We must never forget Elie Wiesel and his message" By Amb. Nancy Brinker, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2016.

• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  Elie Wiesel

  Faith, Anger, Holocaust

  "Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Weisel". www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1986.

• Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Holocaust

• The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Hate, Anime

  Quoted in U.S. News and World Report, 27 Oct. 1986

• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Dust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

• I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Holocaust, Doe

• The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Shoes, Holocaust, Entering

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

• That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Girl, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

• At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Men, Ideas

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.190, Schocken

• Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.55, Macmillan

• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Holocaust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

• It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Victim, Jew

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)”, p.166, Schocken

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