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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 7

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One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Wall, Ghetto, Eye

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.139, Macmillan

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Fighting, Men, Adults

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

Trying

Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.15, Schocken

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.

Real, Teaching, Thinking

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Memories, Culture, Humans

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Events, Veils, Moments

Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.24, Schocken

When adults wage war, children perish.

Children, War, Adults

The Perils of Indifference, delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

War, Holocaust, Bears

"Elie Wiesel, Nobel winner and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 87" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2016.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

Men, Forever, Levels

Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.6, Schocken

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

Religious, War, Evil

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

Memories, Men, Ifs

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.9, Schocken

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

People, Evil, Indifference

Source: dailynorthwestern.com

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Memories, Past, Collective Memory

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

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

Night, Long, Holocaust

Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

Events

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

With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.

Memories, Believe, Angel

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

World, Remember

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Memories, Remembrance, Principles

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Book, Writing, Eight

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

Father, Touch Me

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

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

Believe, People, Humanity

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

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

Teaching, Mean, Scripture

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.

Blessing, Men, Years

For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.

White, People, Doubt

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.

Strong

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