Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 18

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• I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, May, Incidents

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, Killers, Problem

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• I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, Men, Thought Provoking

  Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press

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• Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

  Elie Wiesel

  Self, Solitude, Despair

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• Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

  Elie Wiesel

  Moments, Anguish

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

  Elie Wiesel

  Share, Same Love, Crosses

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine is more interpretive. But it is the love for the text that is there, and that is what makes the whole adventure of reading and studying and sharing worthwhile.

  Elie Wiesel

  Reading, Adventure, Two

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stupid, Thinking, World

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stories, Importance, Wanted

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• My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

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  Elie Wiesel (2010). “All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs”, p.84, Schocken

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• I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Paris, Paper

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, People, Holocaust

  Harry J. Cargas, Elie Wiesel (1976). “Harry James Cargas in Conversation with Elie Wiesel”

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• Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Opposites, Routine

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.

  Elie Wiesel

  Two, Giving, Fingers

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Government, Criminals

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• Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Want, Forget

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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• I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

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  Book, Home, Tables

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• When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Hungry, Humiliated

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Stupid, Arrogant

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, French Culture, Feels

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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• What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Book, Commitment

  "Building a Moral Society". Chamberlin Lecture at Lewis and Clark College, 1995.

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• From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Names, People

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

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• I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Mean, Night

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• The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Tombstone, Writing

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.10, Schocken

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• When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Knowledge, Rooms

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

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