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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 3

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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Holocaust, Would Be, Forget

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

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Giving, Meaning Of Life, Overcoming

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

Education, Keys, Hatred

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

Gratitude, Mean, Night

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.172, Schocken

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Bystanders, Holocaust, Remembrance

Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

Suffering, Groups, Care

Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

Memories, Evil, Dawn

"Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Men, Suffering, Concern

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.171, Schocken

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

Giving, Praying, Give Me Strength

Elie Wiesel (1982). “Night”, New York, Bantam

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

Life, Book, Evil

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

The danger lies in forgetting.

Lying, Forget, Danger

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

Depressing, People, Stories

Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

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 freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

Voice, Quality, Needs

Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

Questions And Answers, Answers, Eternity

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

Differences, People, Holocaust

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

Dream, Night, Men

Elie Wiesel (1961). “Dawn”

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

America, Israel, Hearing

"Bibi's dilemma: Netanyahu can't avoid critics as speech to Congress looms" by Paul Alster, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2015.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Suffering, Indifference, Humans

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

Holocaust, Forget

I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

Mean, Communism, Nazi

Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

Wells, Fanatics

Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.188, Schocken

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

Children, Hate, Hatred

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Children, World, Changing The World

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

Destiny, Turns, Humans

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, November 2000.

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