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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 19

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When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give

When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.

Two, Giving, Fingers

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

Christian, People, Holocaust

Harry J. Cargas, Elie Wiesel (1976). “Harry James Cargas in Conversation with Elie Wiesel”

I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

War, Paris, Paper

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

Elie Wiesel (2010). “All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs”, p.84, Schocken

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

Stories, Importance, Wanted

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

Stupid, Thinking, World

Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?

Book, Writing, Biblical

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.4, Hill and Wang

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

Joy, Needed, Knows

Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.18, Macmillan

One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face.

Book, Men, Elderly

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".

Biblical, Criticism, Towns

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.

Book, Two, Priorities

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

Rabbi, Isaac, Commentators

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.

Night, Men, Numbers

Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

Mean, Junk, Students

Source: www.nobelprize.org

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

Teaching, College, America

Source: www.nobelprize.org

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

Trying, Doe, Way

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

Biblical, Events, Doe

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

Prayer, Men, People

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.54, Macmillan

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

Littles, Violin, Next

Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.134, Penguin UK

My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

Eye, People, Promise

Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.116, Penguin UK

[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.

Passion, Youth, My Passion

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

Heart, Islam, Today

Source: www.nobelprize.org

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Powerful, Love And Friendship, Brutality

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.192, Knopf

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

Dark, Rose, Humanity

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

Answers, Found, Wells

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.69, Schocken

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