Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 16

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• 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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• No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Vision, May

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.140, Macmillan

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• The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].

  Elie Wiesel

  Community, Whole, Saved

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Literature, Want

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• One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving Up, Lasts, Century

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

  Elie Wiesel

  Killers, Victim, Concentration

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• [Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.

  Elie Wiesel

  Two, Years, People

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• I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Communication, Jewish Tradition

  Source: www.npr.org

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• After all, God is God because he remembers.

  Elie Wiesel

  God, Remember

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• In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

  Elie Wiesel

  Coincidence, Jewish History, Jew

  "Elie Wiesel recounts 350 years of the Jewish experience in America" by Jessica Ullian, www.bu.edu. November 5, 2004.

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• 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)

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• [Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

  Elie Wiesel

  Real, Answers, Praying

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• A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.

  Elie Wiesel

  Names, Fake, Masters

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• The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Stories, Tradition

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.

  Elie Wiesel

  Determination, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Sacrifice, Jew

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Important Events

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Stories, Theology

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Not to remember is not an option.

  Elie Wiesel

  Remember

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

  Elie Wiesel

  Laughter, War, Book

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

  Elie Wiesel

  Half, Scholarship

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• What I do, I want to do with all my being.

  Elie Wiesel

  Want

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Writing, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

  Elie Wiesel

  Humans, Persons, Human Beings

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, People, Evil

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.140, Schocken

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