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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 4

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We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.

Children, Hate, Men

"Making Sense of a Senseless World" by Emily Bennington, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

Believe, Guilt, Collectives

Source: www.npr.org

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

Divorce, Arguing, Life Is

Source: www.nobelprize.org

I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

Mean, Thinking, Offering

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

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

Prayer, Tears, Roles

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

Pain, Loss, People

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

Witness

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Injustice, Scream, Easy

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Problem, Enough, Should

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

Secret, Triumph, Treasure

Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

Men, Compassion, Light

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

Children, Adults, Violence

"Open Heart". Book by Elie Wiesel, articles.chicagotribune.com. 2011.

At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

Heart, Men, Ideas

Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.190, Schocken

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

Once Upon A Time, Found, Refugee

Source: www.savetibet.org

Peace is our gift to each other.

Peace, Giving, Humanity

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

Lying

Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.110, Schocken

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Faith, Anger, Holocaust

"Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Weisel". www.nytimes.com. October 15, 1986.

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

Religious, Answers, Elected Officials

Source: www.savetibet.org

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

Baby, Burning, Pits

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Library, Want, Ifs

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Inspirational, Writing, Ifs

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

Heart, Mean, Broken

Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

Attitude, Yesterday, Today

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Helping Others, Survival, Stories

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

War, Believe, Gun

Source: www.nobelprize.org

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