Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 7

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• Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer were our lives to be dragged out from one 'last night' to another?

  Elie Wiesel

  Home, Ghetto, Night

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Philosophy, Logic, Process

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fighting, Men, Adults

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• There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

  Elie Wiesel

  Education, Mean, Divine Beauty

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• Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Attitude, Indifference

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

  Elie Wiesel

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

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

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• I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Book, Taken

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspiring, Memories, Civilization

  "Amb. Nancy Brinker: We must never forget Elie Wiesel and his message" By Amb. Nancy Brinker, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2016.

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• One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Ghetto, Eye

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.139, Macmillan

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• Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Real, Imagination

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• Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, My Past, Impossibility

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• You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

  Elie Wiesel

  Trying

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.15, Schocken

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• I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, Single Child

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• I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.

  Elie Wiesel

  Real, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Culture, Humans

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• Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

  Elie Wiesel

  Events, Veils, Moments

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.24, Schocken

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• When adults wage war, children perish.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, War, Adults

  The Perils of Indifference, delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C.

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• Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

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  Men, Forever, Levels

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.6, Schocken

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• What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

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  Wall, Civilization, Magic

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• For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Holocaust, Bears

  "Elie Wiesel, Nobel winner and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 87" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2016.

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• When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

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  Religious, War, Evil

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• What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

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  Memories, Men, Ifs

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.9, Schocken

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• For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Past, Collective Memory

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

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• 'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Evil, Indifference

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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