Elie Wiesel Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Elie Wiesel Quotes and Sayings


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    A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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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. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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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. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    I write to understand as much as to be understood. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    In Jewish history there are no coincidences. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Peace is our gift to each other. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Some stories are true that never happened. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF
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    Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. Elie Wiesel | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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