Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 18

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• If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, Killers, Problem

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• It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims

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  Holocaust, Victim, Jew

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)”, p.166, Schocken

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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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• All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.

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  Grateful, Imagination, Waiting

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• If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

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  Freedom, Ends, Claims

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

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• The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

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  Secret, Nostalgia, Deeper

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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• What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

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  Memories, Book, Commitment

  "Building a Moral Society". Chamberlin Lecture at Lewis and Clark College, 1995.

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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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• 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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• Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

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  Jobs, Men, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.67, Macmillan

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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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• Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

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  Writing, Opposites, Routine

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.

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  Two, Giving, Fingers

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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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.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Paris, Paper

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

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  Thinking, Photographer, Sometimes

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• I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

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  Book, World, Firsts

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

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  Trying, Doe, Way

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

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  Ancient Literature, Style, Example

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• [ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

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  Rabbi, Isaac, Commentators

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• [My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.

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  Book, Two, Priorities

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".

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  Biblical, Criticism, Towns

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face.

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  Book, Men, Elderly

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I was never without a book in my hand.

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  Book, Hands

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

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  Book, Moses, Mendelssohn

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.

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  Biblical, Criticism, Moses

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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