"What I don't like today is, to put……" — Elie Wiesel
"What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke."
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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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The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces…
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Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
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'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over…
— Robertson Davies
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I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to…
— Henry David Thoreau
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With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured…
— Wyndham Lewis
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
— George Will
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I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of…
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