Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 21

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• Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.54, Schocken

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• I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Important Events

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Differences, Pieces

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Stories, Tradition

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.

  Elie Wiesel

  Today, World, Not Interested

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.54, Macmillan

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• Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Sacrifice, Jew

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, People, Promise

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

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  Littles, Violin, Next

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

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• Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Teaching, Trying

  "Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Events, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Government, Criminals

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• [The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Passion, Youth, My Passion

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

  Elie Wiesel

  Emotional, Layers, Relation

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

  Elie Wiesel

  Optimistic, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Men, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.54, Macmillan

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• The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

  Elie Wiesel

  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

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• I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Mean, Night

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• My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  "Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

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  Discovery, Cities, Paris

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Testament: A novel”, p.168, Schocken

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• Not to remember is not an option.

  Elie Wiesel

  Remember

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving Up, Lasts, Century

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, People, Holocaust

  Harry J. Cargas, Elie Wiesel (1976). “Harry James Cargas in Conversation with Elie Wiesel”

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• I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, May, Incidents

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

  Elie Wiesel

  Today, Students, Phony

  "Elie Wiesel: Conversations". Book edited by Robert Franciosi, 2002.

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• My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel… As a Jew I see my role as a melitz yosher, a defender of Israel: I defend even her mistakes… I must identify with whatever Israel does – even with her errors.

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  Loyalty, Mistake, Errors

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