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Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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 never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
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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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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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[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.
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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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And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
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I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.
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The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
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If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.
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Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
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All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.
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We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.
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Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
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Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
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It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.
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