Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 15

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• It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Easier, Conformist

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

  Elie Wiesel

  Answers, Lost, Possessed

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.23, Macmillan

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• The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Home, Feet

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.127, Schocken

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• It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ghetto, People, Car

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

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• A man can laugh while he suffers.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Laughing, Suffering

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• In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

  Elie Wiesel

  Jewish Tradition, Sinai, Said

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Years, World

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism and to Tibet. It's not only because of the Dalai Lama. It's because of what Tibet represents. There is a vast reservoir of knowledge, of mystical knowledge, which can be found in Tibet.The Chinese shouldn't be afraid of that really. They have other means of survival.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Buddhism, Past

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

  Elie Wiesel

  Survival, Stronger, Done

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• God means movement, and not explanation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Movement, Explanation

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.93, Schocken

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• In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Towns, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

  Elie Wiesel

  Doubt, Exodus, Knows

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, College, America

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

  Elie Wiesel

  Optimistic, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

  Elie Wiesel

  Doubt, Exodus, No Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mistake, Army, Order

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.

  Elie Wiesel

  Today, World, Not Interested

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.54, Macmillan

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• I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Government, Giving

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Criticism, Moses

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

  Elie Wiesel

  Crosses, Professors, Frank

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

  Elie Wiesel

  Please Me, Deeds, Good Deeds

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Historical Novels, Captivity

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• The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Tragedy, Wish

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Tragedy, Answers

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

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• 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

  Hope, Holocaust, Despair

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