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History Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should…
- Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment…
- From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes…
- 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…
- In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
- Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart.…
- It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the…
- It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
- I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world.…
- Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish…
- In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my…
- Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough