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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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I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
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I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.
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I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
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Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.
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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.
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I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.
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Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
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Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
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The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
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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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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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How can a human being be illegal?
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
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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)
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
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