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Holocaust Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims
- Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should…
- The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
- I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He…
- At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner…
- The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not…
- 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…
- There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
- The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
- 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…
- No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
- 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…
- That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life…
- Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center…
- We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
- Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't…
- 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…
- For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
- To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
- To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice
More Holocaust Quotes
- I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust. — Roseanne Barr
- As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez
- The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture… — Marek Belka
- I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are… — Benazir Bhutto
- There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust. — Fidel Castro
- When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable.… — Jonah Goldberg
- One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand. — Janet Morris
- How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, 'My top priority for… — John Hagee
- You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban… — Elizabeth Bibesco
- For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or… — Hassan Nasrallah
- If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier? — Scott Pelley
- We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at… — Norman Myers