Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 15

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• The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Curiosity, Criminals

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• [The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too.

  Elie Wiesel

  Kings, Book, Mean

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Opera, Soap

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ambition, Political, Persons

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Easier, Conformist

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

  Elie Wiesel

  Answers, Lost, Possessed

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

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• The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Home, Feet

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.127, Schocken

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• A man can laugh while he suffers.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Laughing, Suffering

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• In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

  Elie Wiesel

  Jewish Tradition, Sinai, Said

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Years, World

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism and to Tibet. It's not only because of the Dalai Lama. It's because of what Tibet represents. There is a vast reservoir of knowledge, of mystical knowledge, which can be found in Tibet.The Chinese shouldn't be afraid of that really. They have other means of survival.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Buddhism, Past

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Hope, Peace

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• Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

  Elie Wiesel

  Survival, Stronger, Done

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• God means movement, and not explanation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Movement, Explanation

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.93, Schocken

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• There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Indifferent, Grants

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• Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Offering, Grace

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.172, Schocken

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• There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

  Elie Wiesel

  Destiny, Encounters, Accidents

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• There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Islam, Today

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• [Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Want, Theory, Jew

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Mean, Writing

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

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• We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stories, Adam, Adam And Eve

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

  Elie Wiesel

  Doubt, Exodus, No Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Judaism

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue.

  Elie Wiesel

  Issues, Historical, Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

  Elie Wiesel

  Surprise, Auschwitz

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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