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Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.
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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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The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
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Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
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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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I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.
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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
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I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
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Whenever an angel says Be not afraid! you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
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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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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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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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