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After all, God is God because he remembers.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.
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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.
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When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
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I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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We know, for instance, of The Book of the Wars of the Lord. It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]
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You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.
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The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
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There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
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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.
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My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.
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