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There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.
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 don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.
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Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.
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There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.
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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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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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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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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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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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I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
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[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.
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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
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Writing should not be routine writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
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did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
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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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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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Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.
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There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.
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Love makes everything complicated.
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