Elie Wiesel Quotes About Killing

Quotes about: Killing

• 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

• Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Killing

• John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Speak, Christ, Killing

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Past, Collective Memory

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

• He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

  Elie Wiesel

  Despair, Want, Overcoming

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.67, Macmillan

• 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.

• The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Believe, Gun

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Culture, Shields

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Vocabulary, People

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Killing, Innocent

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

• Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Weapons, Killing

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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