Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 4

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• This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Tears, Roles

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• For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

  Elie Wiesel

  Injustice, Scream, Easy

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

  Elie Wiesel

  Divorce, Arguing, Life Is

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving, Praying, Give Me Strength

  Elie Wiesel (1982). “Night”, New York, Bantam

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• I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Communism, Nazi

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

  Elie Wiesel

  Voice, Quality, Needs

  Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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• I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

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  Mean, Thinking, Offering

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

  Elie Wiesel

  Problem, Enough, Should

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• For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

  O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, November 2000.

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• I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Hate, Hatred

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Loss, People

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• We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

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  Secret, Triumph, Treasure

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• I do not believe in collective guilt.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Guilt, Collectives

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Compassion, Light

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Differences, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

  Elie Wiesel

  Once Upon A Time, Found, Refugee

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  Elie Wiesel

  Faith, Anger, Holocaust

  "Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Weisel". www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1986.

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• We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Adults, Violence

  "Open Heart". Book by Elie Wiesel, articles.chicagotribune.com. 2011.

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• A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Answers, Elected Officials

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Baby, Burning, Pits

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• At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Men, Ideas

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.190, Schocken

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• Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Mean, Broken

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

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• ..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

  Elie Wiesel

  Library, Want, Ifs

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• Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Writing, Ifs

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• 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

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