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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 16

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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Dream, Vision, May

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.140, Macmillan

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Hope, Holocaust, Despair

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

Anchors, Roots, People

Source: www.savetibet.org

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

Holocaust, Tragedy, Answers

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

Not to remember is not an option.

Remember

Source: www.npr.org

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

Book, Historical Novels, Captivity

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

Dream, Night, Dust

Night ch. 3 (1960)

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Memories, Literature, Want

The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].

Community, Whole, Saved

Source: www.savetibet.org

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Inspirational, Hope, Peace

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Coincidence, Jewish History, Jew

"Elie Wiesel recounts 350 years of the Jewish experience in America" by Jessica Ullian, www.bu.edu. November 5, 2004.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

God, Remember

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

Believe, Communication, Jewish Tradition

Source: www.npr.org

[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.

Two, Years, People

I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.

Religious, Government, Giving

Source: www.savetibet.org

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Killers, Victim, Concentration

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

Giving Up, Lasts, Century

Source: www.savetibet.org

[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

Real, Answers, Praying

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

Men, Victim, Executioners

Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.60, Schocken

I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

Teaching, Writing, People

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

Half, Scholarship

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

Humans, Persons, Human Beings

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine is more interpretive. But it is the love for the text that is there, and that is what makes the whole adventure of reading and studying and sharing worthwhile.

Reading, Adventure, Two

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

Laughter, War, Book

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

What I do, I want to do with all my being.

Want

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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