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Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.
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 do not believe in collective guilt.
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A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.
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Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
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You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.
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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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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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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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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
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I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).
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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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We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.
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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
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Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go dictatorship, not to go racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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