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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Judaic Scholar
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
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Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.
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Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
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Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.
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Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.
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There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.
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A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.
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