Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 21

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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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• 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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• We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Punishment, Nuclear

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Doe, Arrogant, True Knowledge

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• The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

  Elie Wiesel

  Regret, Sin, I Regret

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Reap

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

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• First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

  Elie Wiesel

  Strong, Risk, Firsts

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• 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

  Mean, Junk, Students

  Source: www.nobelprize.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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• The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mistake, Army, Order

  Source: www.nobelprize.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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• [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 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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• I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Father, Way

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Historical, Elements

  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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• 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. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Years, Law

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

  Elie Wiesel

  Laughter, War, Book

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

  Elie Wiesel

  Humans, Persons, Human Beings

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.

  Elie Wiesel

  America, World, Terrorism

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Weapons, Killing

  Source: www.savetibet.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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• Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

  Elie Wiesel

  Historical, Chinese, Want

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Biblical, Past

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Not to remember is not an option.

  Elie Wiesel

  Remember

  Source: www.npr.org

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