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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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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Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.
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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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We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.
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No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.
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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
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I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
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The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.
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First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
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You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.
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Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
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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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He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.
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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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