Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 16

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• Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

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  War, Names, Doe

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

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• I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

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  Education, Use, May

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

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  Memories, Past, Keywords

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• Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

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  Fate, Compassion, Fantasy

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.271, Schocken

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• Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

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  Creativity, Evil, Enemy

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• Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?

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  Art, Military, War

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• I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

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  Half, Scholarship

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other verbs and other images. No, that wasn't it either. But what exactly was that it I was searching for? It must have been all that eludes us, hidden behind a veil so as not to be stolen, usurped and trivialized. Words seemed weak and pale.

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  Writing, Mean, Elude Us

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• I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

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  God, Silence, Quality

  Interview with John S. Friedman, The Paris Review, No. 91, Spring 1984.

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• There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

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  War, Israel, Generations

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

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  Voice, Atheism, Gallows

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

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• If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

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  Teaching, Want, Awareness

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

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  Danger, Liberation, Starving

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.85, Knopf

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• I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

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  Book, French Culture, Feels

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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• In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

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  Coincidence, Jewish History, Jew

  "Elie Wiesel recounts 350 years of the Jewish experience in America" by Jessica Ullian, www.bu.edu. November 5, 2004.

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• I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

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  War, Paris, Paper

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

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  Action, Indifference, Danger

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.143, Macmillan

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• What I do, I want to do with all my being.

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  Want

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

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  Teaching, Writing, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine is more interpretive. But it is the love for the text that is there, and that is what makes the whole adventure of reading and studying and sharing worthwhile.

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  Reading, Adventure, Two

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

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  Writing, Reap

  Elie Wiesel (2010). “All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs”, p.17, Schocken

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• Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

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  Doe, Arrogant, True Knowledge

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• I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

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  Joy, Needed, Knows

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.18, Macmillan

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• In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?

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  Book, Writing, Biblical

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.4, Hill and Wang

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• If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

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  Men, Offering, Fellow Man

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.75, Schocken

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