Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 7

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• There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

  Elie Wiesel

  Education, Mean, Divine Beauty

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• Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, My Past, Impossibility

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• I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fighting, Men, Adults

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• You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

  Elie Wiesel

  Trying

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.15, Schocken

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• I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.

  Elie Wiesel

  Real, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Culture, Humans

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• Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

  Elie Wiesel

  Events, Veils, Moments

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.24, Schocken

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• When adults wage war, children perish.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, War, Adults

  The Perils of Indifference, delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C.

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• For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Holocaust, Bears

  "Elie Wiesel, Nobel winner and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 87" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2016.

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• Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Forever, Levels

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.6, Schocken

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• When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, War, Evil

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• What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Men, Ifs

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.9, Schocken

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• 'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Evil, Indifference

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Past, Collective Memory

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

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• Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Holocaust

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• Some events do take place but are not true;
  others are, although they never occurred.

  Elie Wiesel

  Events

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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• With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Believe, Angel

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• I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

  Elie Wiesel

  World, Remember

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• I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Remembrance, Principles

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• After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

  Elie Wiesel

  Father, Touch Me

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

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• There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Writing, Eight

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, People, Humanity

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

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• What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Mean, Scripture

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.

  Elie Wiesel

  Blessing, Men, Years

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• For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.

  Elie Wiesel

  White, People, Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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