Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 8

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• A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

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  Men, Genocide, Destruction

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• When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.

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  Strong

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• I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I had read how difficult it was for her to get pregnant. "Grandma! I have news for you!" "What did you learn?" "I have news, Grandma: Sarah is pregnant!" [Genesis 16 - 21].

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  Grandma, Home, Grandmother

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

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  Army, Firsts, Moses

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• All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

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  People, Killing, Innocent

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

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  Teacher, Thinking, Profession

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• I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

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  Military, Men, Giving

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

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  Religious, War, Crisis

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• A word is worth a thousand pictures.

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  Thousand

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• It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

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  People, Hatred, Indifference

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• My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

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  Teacher, Father, Impact

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

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  Eye, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

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  Positivity, Thinking, Deeper

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• I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

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  Thinking, Doubt, American History

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

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  Memories, Ends, Source

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

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• Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

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  Home, Mean, Government

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

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  Children, Culture, Shields

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

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  Pain, Enemy, Benefits

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

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• I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

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  People, Hatred, Victim

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

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  World, Desperate, Reason

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

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  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]

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  Angel, Son, Boys

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

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  Punishment, Understanding, Tower Of Babel

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

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  Children, Fighting, Racism

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

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  Cancer, Hatred, Immune

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

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