Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 6

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• The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

  Elie Wiesel

  Important, Faces, Humans

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• Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

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  Hate, Holocaust, Healthy

  "Legends of Our Time". Book by Elie Wiesel, 1968.

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• A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

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  Fighting, Men, Waiting

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.193, Schocken

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• Some stories are true that never happened.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Dream, Writing

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• I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

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  Neutrality, Sides, Oppressed

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• You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

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  Jerusalem, Return, Mystery

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• I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, People, Holocaust

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• Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

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  Brother, Hate, Waiting

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.75, Macmillan

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• For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

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  Hope, Mean, Imagination

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• Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

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  War, Victim, Obligation

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Helping Others, Survival, Helping

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

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• Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

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  Soul, Sickness, Indifference

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.89, Schocken

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• I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Years, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Speak, Christ, Killing

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.

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  War, Stories, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

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  Freedom, Men, Sovereignty

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• You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

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  Reading, Heart, Mind

  "Elie Wiesel on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

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  Mean, Holocaust, Trials

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• My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

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  Life Is, Wounded

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

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  Way, Hebrew

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

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  Men, Sacred, Sparks

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

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  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Fifth Son: A novel”, p.54, Schocken

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