Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 10

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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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• 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.

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  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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• I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

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  Book, Destiny, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.12, Macmillan

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

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  Certain, Dangerous, Asks

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

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• He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

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  Lying, Answers, Insistence

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

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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.

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  Men, Needs, World

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

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• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Holocaust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

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• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Responsibility

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• Questions outlive the answers.

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  Answers

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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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• Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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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.

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  Brother, Hurt, Father

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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  Life, Friendship, Relationship

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.

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  Dark, Past, Opposites

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• A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

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  War, Holy, Contradiction

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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• The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

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  Stars, Eye, Fire

  Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

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• Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

  Elie Wiesel

  Attitude, Touch Me, Rabbi

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

  Elie Wiesel

  Real, People, Stories

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Winning, Men

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Coffee, Waiting, Tradition

  "10 Questions for Elie Wiesel". Interview with Jeff Chu, content.time.com. January 22, 2006.

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• Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

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  Peace, War, Men

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• Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

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  Writing, Order, Sculpture

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

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• The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Men, Brain

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