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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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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 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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It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
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From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
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When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
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I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.
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Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
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Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
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The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet.
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.
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Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.
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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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