Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 9

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• How can a human being be illegal?

  Elie Wiesel

  Illegal, Humans, Human Beings

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• Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, People, Civilized Nations

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.180, Schocken

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• Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

  Elie Wiesel

  Deeds And Words, Silence, Grace

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

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• Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Heart, Israel

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• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Power, Evil

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

  Elie Wiesel

  Today, Violence, Century

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Hatred, Victim

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

  Elie Wiesel

  World, Desperate, Reason

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

  Elie Wiesel

  Home, Mean, Government

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Fighting, Racism

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Cancer, Hatred, Immune

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

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• Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]

  Elie Wiesel

  Angel, Son, Boys

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Culture, Shields

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

  Elie Wiesel

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Punishment, Understanding, Tower Of Babel

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Killing

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• For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

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  Believe, Tradition, Share

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• My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mind, Trying, Tasks

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill one another in civil wars. But most important, whoever kills, kills his brother. That's a moral conclusion that may not be there; but that must be my conclusion. Otherwise, why read it? Whoever kills, kills his brother.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, War, Joy

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Soul, Depth

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Betray

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.10, Schocken

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• No human being is illegal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Illegal, Humans, Human Beings

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• Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, School, Contradiction

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• For me, every hour is grace.

  Elie Wiesel

  Grace, Hours

  The Oprah Magazine Interview, November 2000.

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• Love makes everything complicated.

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  Complicated

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