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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 8

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A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Men, Genocide, Destruction

I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I had read how difficult it was for her to get pregnant. "Grandma! I have news for you!" "What did you learn?" "I have news, Grandma: Sarah is pregnant!" [Genesis 16 - 21].

Grandma, Home, Grandmother

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Army, Firsts, Moses

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

Military, Men, Giving

Source: dailynorthwestern.com

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

People, Killing, Innocent

Source: dailynorthwestern.com

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

Might, Tragic, Situation

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.58, Macmillan

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

Teacher, Thinking, Profession

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

Religious, War, Crisis

Source: www.nobelprize.org

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Thousand

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

People, Hatred, Indifference

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

Teacher, Father, Impact

Source: dailynorthwestern.com

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

Eye, Thinking, Government

Source: www.savetibet.org

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

Thinking, Doubt, American History

Source: dailynorthwestern.com

Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

Positivity, Thinking, Deeper

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

Children, Culture, Shields

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Pain, Enemy, Benefits

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

Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

Home, Mean, Government

Source: www.savetibet.org

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

People, Hatred, Victim

Source: www.nobelprize.org

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

World, Desperate, Reason

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]

Angel, Son, Boys

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Daughter, Mother, Teacher

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

Today, Violence, Century

Source: www.nobelprize.org

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

Cancer, Hatred, Immune

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

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

Punishment, Understanding, Tower Of Babel

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

Mind, Trying, Tasks

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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