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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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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.
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The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
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The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.
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It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
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Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.
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I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.
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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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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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When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
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Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
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I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.
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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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Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.
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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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For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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