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did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Humanist
Journalist
Judaic Scholar
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Philosopher
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I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.
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I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.
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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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I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
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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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I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
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I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.
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He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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We know, for instance, of The Book of the Wars of the Lord. It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]
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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
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I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?
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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
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If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.
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I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.
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No human being is illegal.
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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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.
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One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.
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