Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 5

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• Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

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  Helping Others, Survival, Stories

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• Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

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  Attitude, Yesterday, Today

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• How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference — numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.

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  Men, Unique, Differences

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• You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

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  Destiny, Strange, Grows

  "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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• Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

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  Children, Guilty

  "Only the Guilty Are Guilty, Not Their Sons". www.nytimes.com. May 05, 2001.

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• In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

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  Illusion, Vain, Dangerous

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.8, Macmillan

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• I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

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  Past, Want, My Past

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• A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

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  Fighting, Men, Waiting

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.193, Schocken

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• When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Missing

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

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• My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting

  "Learning and Respect". Elie Wiesel's commencement speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 1997.

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• I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

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  Death, Holocaust, Doe

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• I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

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  Writing, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

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  Angel, Worry, Way

  "Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy". Book by Robert McAfee Brown, 1988.

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• Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

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  Hate, Holocaust, Healthy

  "Legends of Our Time". Book by Elie Wiesel, 1968.

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• Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

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  Neutrality, Sides, Oppressed

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• I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

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  Believe, Past, Mankind

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• Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

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  Gratitude, Humanity, Cherish

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• None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

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  War, Victim, Obligation

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

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  Soul, Sickness, Indifference

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.89, Schocken

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• For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

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  Memories, Years, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?

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  Home, Ghetto, Night

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

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  Jerusalem, Return, Mystery

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• It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

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  Freedom, Men, Sovereignty

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• I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

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  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

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  Helping Others, Survival, Helping

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

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