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• Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

  Elie Wiesel

  Today, Violence, Century

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mind, Trying, Tasks

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Soul, Depth

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill one another in civil wars. But most important, whoever kills, kills his brother. That's a moral conclusion that may not be there; but that must be my conclusion. Otherwise, why read it? Whoever kills, kills his brother.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, War, Joy

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book edited by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.

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• Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, School, Contradiction

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• I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Worst, Shows

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

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• Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Heart, Israel

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• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Power, Evil

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• Love makes everything complicated.

  Elie Wiesel

  Complicated

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• Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Killing

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• For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Tradition, Share

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• If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Loneliness, Suffering

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

  Elie Wiesel

  Tasks, Turbulent Times, Jew

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• Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Betray

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.10, Schocken

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• No human being is illegal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Illegal, Humans, Human Beings

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• Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mistake, Land, Serious

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

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• I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Worst, Humans

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes ... Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Years, People, Messages

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

  Elie Wiesel

  Certain, Dangerous, Asks

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.81, Schocken

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• For me, every hour is grace.

  Elie Wiesel

  Grace, Hours

  The Oprah Magazine Interview, November 2000.

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• Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Needs, World

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.39, Schocken

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• My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

  Elie Wiesel

  Understood

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Philosophy, Evil

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Hurt, Father

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