"Holy War is a contradiction of terms..." — Elie Wiesel
"Holy War is a contradiction of terms..."
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326 Quotes by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel has 326 quotes on this site.
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This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted,…
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of…
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Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at…
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering...…
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More Contradiction Quotes
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary…
— Fidel Castro
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
— Thomas Paine
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