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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.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
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Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
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The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.
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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 remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].
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I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.
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A voice behind me asked, Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now? and a voice within me answered: Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows.
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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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I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
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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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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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Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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