Mean Quotes by Elie Wiesel

God means movement, and not explanation.

— Elie Wiesel

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

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What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other…

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When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

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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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I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of…

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Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I…

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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…

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It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our…

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I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means…

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Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace…

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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment…

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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…

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Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is…

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Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this,…

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I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and…

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The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for…

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I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so…

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[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The…

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Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began…

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The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others.…

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But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come…

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There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others…

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I was there when God was put on trial…At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'.…

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The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism…

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For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference…

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