Elie Wiesel quotes - page 2

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)
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching. View quote
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future. View quote
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. View quote
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Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way. View quote
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Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. View quote
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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. View quote
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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself. View quote
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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from? (Elie Wiesel)
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. View quote
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences. View quote
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One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. View quote
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I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. View quote
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Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time. View quote
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After all, God is God because he remembers. View quote
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. View quote
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Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness? View quote
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It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory. View quote
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander. (Elie Wiesel)
What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." View quote
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From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace.. . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever. View quote
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The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here? View quote
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. View quote
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