Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 3

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• Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sparks, Moments, Eternity

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• In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

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  Beautiful, Quests, Beautiful Words

  "Oprah Talks to Elie Wiesel". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• Peace is our gift to each other.

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  Peace, Giving, Humanity

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• Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

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  Thinking, Few Words, Substitutes

  "The Elevator Interview – Elie Wiesel (Exclusive)". The Algemeiner Interview, www.algemeiner.com. September 23, 2011.

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• [Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

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  Madness, Said, Certainty

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

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  Thinking, Grieving, Giving

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• Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

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  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Overcoming

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

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  Holocaust, Would Be, Forget

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

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• Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

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  Education, Keys, Hatred

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• No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

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  Gratitude, Mean, Night

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.172, Schocken

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• you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

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  Suffering, Groups, Care

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• Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

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  Lying

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.110, Schocken

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• Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

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  Memories, Evil, Dawn

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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• I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

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  Life, Book, Evil

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

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• Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

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  Might, Tragic, Situation

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.58, Macmillan

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• We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.

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  Children, Hate, Men

  "Making Sense of a Senseless World" by Emily Bennington, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

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• The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

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  Life, Helping Others, Stories

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• We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

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  Depressing, People, Stories

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

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• Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

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  Soup

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Testament: A novel”, p.312, Schocken

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• Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

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  America, Israel, Hearing

  "Bibi's dilemma: Netanyahu can't avoid critics as speech to Congress looms" by Paul Alster, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2015.

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• Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

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  Dream, Night, Men

  Elie Wiesel (1961). “Dawn”

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• Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

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  Destiny, Turns, Humans

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• Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

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  Questions And Answers, Answers, Eternity

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• Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

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  Children, World, Changing The World

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

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  Wells, Fanatics

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.188, Schocken

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