Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 8

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• Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Holocaust

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• Some events do take place but are not true;
  others are, although they never occurred.

  Elie Wiesel

  Events

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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• With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Believe, Angel

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• I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, People, Humanity

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

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• There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Writing, Eight

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

  Elie Wiesel

  World, Remember

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• After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

  Elie Wiesel

  Father, Touch Me

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

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• I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Remembrance, Principles

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• What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Mean, Scripture

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Hate, Anime

  Quoted in U.S. News and World Report, 27 Oct. 1986

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• For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.

  Elie Wiesel

  White, People, Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.

  Elie Wiesel

  Strong

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• I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I had read how difficult it was for her to get pregnant. "Grandma! I have news for you!" "What did you learn?" "I have news, Grandma: Sarah is pregnant!" [Genesis 16 - 21].

  Elie Wiesel

  Grandma, Home, Grandmother

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

  Elie Wiesel

  Army, Firsts, Moses

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• I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

  Elie Wiesel

  Military, Men, Giving

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Killing, Innocent

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, War, Crisis

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• A word is worth a thousand pictures.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thousand

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• It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Hatred, Indifference

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• My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Father, Impact

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Doubt, American History

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Ends, Source

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

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• The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

  US News & World Report, en.wikiquote.org. October 27, 1986.

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• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book edited by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.

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