"Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on……" — Elie Wiesel
"Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries."
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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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Holy War is a contradiction of terms...
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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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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
— Primo Levi
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened…
— Terry Brooks
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal…
— R. J. Hollingdale
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There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have…
— Nahum Goldmann
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No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
— Art Spiegelman
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I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
— Newt Gingrich
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I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
— Michael Crichton
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming…
— Erwin Chargaff
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
— Elie Wiesel
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