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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 20

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[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

Want, Theory, Jew

Source: www.nobelprize.org

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

Prayer, Father, Way

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

Book, World, Firsts

Source: www.nobelprize.org

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

Book, Moses, Mendelssohn

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

Brother, Fate, Suffering

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

Teacher, Children, Teaching

"Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

War, Israel, Generations

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

Freedom, Ends, Claims

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.

Thinking, Punishment, Nuclear

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You dont die of it.

Stars, Yellow, Oh Well

Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

Christian, Impact, Holocaust

Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.5, Schocken

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wall, Knowledge, Rooms

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

Children, Hungry, Humiliated

Source: www.npr.org

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

Pain, Want, Forget

"Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

Believe, Want, Humans

"Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

Book, French Culture, Feels

"Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.

Mean, Biblical, Past

Source: www.savetibet.org

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

Teaching, Want, Awareness

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

Historical, Chinese, Want

Source: www.savetibet.org

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Book, Home, Tables

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

Today, Students, Phony

"Elie Wiesel: Conversations". Book edited by Robert Franciosi, 2002.

What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

Memories, Book, Commitment

"Building a Moral Society". Chamberlin Lecture at Lewis and Clark College, 1995.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

Religious, Mean, Night

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 eliminatedever.

War, Names, People

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Secret, Nostalgia, Deeper

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

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