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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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When adults wage war, children perish.
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Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.
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How can a human being be illegal?
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When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.
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I do not believe in collective guilt.
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you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.
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[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.
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No human being is illegal.
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