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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 21

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When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second

When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

War, Stupid, Arrogant

Source: www.npr.org

It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

Past, Government, Criminals

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

Writing, Reap

Elie Wiesel (2010). “All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs”, p.17, Schocken

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

Strong, Risk, Firsts

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

Fate, Compassion, Fantasy

Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.271, Schocken

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

Trying, Jewish Faith, Defining Moments

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

Memories, Past, Keywords

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

Education, Use, May

Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Action, Indifference, Danger

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.143, Macmillan

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

Yesterday, Tomorrow, Silent

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.11, Macmillan

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

Optimistic, People, Holocaust

Source: www.nobelprize.org

The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.

Mistake, Army, Order

Source: www.nobelprize.org

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

Emotional, Layers, Relation

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

Ancient Literature, Style, Example

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

God, Silence, Quality

Interview with John S. Friedman, The Paris Review, No. 91, Spring 1984.

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

Share, Same Love, Crosses

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

Laughter, Mistake, Men

I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

Dream, Book, Example

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

Play, Soul, Darkness

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Men, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.54, Schocken

I was never without a book in my hand.

Book, Hands

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Teacher, Teaching, Trying

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

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Creativity, Evil, Enemy

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

Destiny, Encounters, Accidents

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