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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 2

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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

Positivity, Hands, Waiting

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

Suffering, Conclusion, Consent

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Sparks, Moments, Eternity

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

Prayer, World, Strange

Source: www.npr.org

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

Good Friend, Remember, Sin

"Changing world of commencement speakers" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2008.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.

Beautiful, People, Essentials

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Madness, Said, Certainty

Source: www.nobelprize.org

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Faith, Religious, Race

"Have You Learned The Most Important Lesson Of All?". Parade Magazine, www.thehypertexts.com. May 24, 1992.

Think higher, feel deeper.

Thinking, Deeper, Feels

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

Beautiful, Skinny, Contradiction

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Thinking, Opposites, People

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

Racism, People, Want

Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

Children, Believe, School

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Every moment is a new beginning.

Inspirational, Positive, New Beginnings

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.75, Schocken

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

Soup

Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Testament: A novel”, p.312, Schocken

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Life, Despair, Remember

Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Thinking, Few Words, Substitutes

"The Elevator Interview – Elie Wiesel (Exclusive)". The Algemeiner Interview, www.algemeiner.com. September 23, 2011.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

Success, Teacher, Teaching

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

Death, Yoga, Heaven

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

Children, Freedom, Integrity

Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

Beautiful, Quests, Beautiful Words

"Oprah Talks to Elie Wiesel". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

Peace, Men, Ubuntu

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

Thinking, Grieving, Giving

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