Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 12

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• I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested.

  Elie Wiesel

  Differences, People, Holocaust

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

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• Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Moon, Men

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

  Elie Wiesel

  Tears, Depth, Might

  Elie Wiesel (1982). “Night”, New York, Bantam

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• Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Body, Soup

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

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• Humanity would never tolerate it

  Elie Wiesel

  Humanity, Tolerate

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

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• Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

  Elie Wiesel

  Games, Innocent, Cruelty

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.44, Schocken

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• Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Evil, Heaven

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.183, Schocken

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• I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.

  Elie Wiesel

  Farewell, Eye, Men

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Fighting, Alive

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

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• I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Praying, Used

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Vocabulary, People

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Stories, Adam

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Long, Way

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

  Elie Wiesel

  Generations, Humans, Nations

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pride, Joy, Special

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ambition, Political, Want

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

  Elie Wiesel

  Tragedy, Insult, Humans

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• [Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner sovereignty, inner independence, inner freedom. And inner strength to attain the absolute.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Soul, Independence

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are young, especially young people are taken by this human rights activities. They should organize the universities.

  Elie Wiesel

  Communication, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.

  Elie Wiesel

  Government, People, Weapons

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

  Elie Wiesel

  Honest, Truthful, Memoir

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• Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ideas, Bird, Survivor

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• Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.

  Elie Wiesel

  Running, Teacher, Strong

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• [Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Country, Religious, Principles

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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