Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 5

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• Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

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  Soup

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Testament: A novel”, p.312, Schocken

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• For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

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  Opposites, Democracy, Way

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

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  Positivity, Thinking, Deeper

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• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

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  Faith, Anger, Holocaust

  "Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Weisel". www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1986.

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• I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

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  Thinking, Worst, Shows

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

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• For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

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  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

  O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, November 2000.

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• Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

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  Wall, Suffering, Cry

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.96, Macmillan

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• I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

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  Children, Hate, Hatred

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

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  Heart, Mean, Broken

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

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• Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

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  Baby, Burning, Pits

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• Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

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  Helping Others, Survival, Stories

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• I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

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  Death, Holocaust, Doe

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• Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

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  Inspirational, Writing, Ifs

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• Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

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  Children, Guilty

  "Only the Guilty Are Guilty, Not Their Sons". www.nytimes.com. May 05, 2001.

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• ..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

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  Library, Want, Ifs

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• Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

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  Might, Tragic, Situation

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.58, Macmillan

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• At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

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  Heart, Men, Ideas

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.190, Schocken

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• Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

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  Gratitude, Humanity, Cherish

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• How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference — numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.

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  Men, Unique, Differences

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• You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

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  Destiny, Strange, Grows

  "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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• A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

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  Men, Genocide, Destruction

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• My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting

  "Learning and Respect". Elie Wiesel's commencement speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 1997.

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• When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Missing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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• We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

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  Children, Adults, Violence

  "Open Heart". Book by Elie Wiesel, articles.chicagotribune.com. 2011.

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• I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

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  Differences, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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