Elie Wiesel Quotes

After the war we reassured ourselves that it would be enough to relate a single night in Treblinka, to tell of the cruelty, the senselessness of murder, and the outrage born of indifference: it would be enough to find the right word and the propitious moment to say it, to shake humanity out of its indifference and keep the torturer from torturing ever again.

Elie Wiesel

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• Single
• Humanity

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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Peace
  • Point
  • Election

• I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Growing
  • Old
  • Growing Old

• I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Failure
  • New

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Explore

• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Know
  • Memory
  • Survival

• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

  

  Hafez
  • God
  • Myself
  • Christian

• TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Different
  • Want
  • Look

• The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Important
  • Culture

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Sleep
  • Better
  • Lie

• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Finish

• There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Humanity
  • Adventure
  • Call

• At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Help
  • Culture
  • Responsibility

• I’ve known Donald (Trump) for a few decades, and what you can say without argument is that he’s a good father. His kids have turned out really well. There’s nothing bad you can say about that.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Bad

• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Humanity
  • Pleasure
  • Parent

• Take the back roads instead of the highways.

  

  Minnie Pearl
  • Travel
  • Roads
  • Highways

• If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.

  

  Keren Ann
  • Lost
  • City
  • Explore

• After the war we reassured ourselves that it would be enough to relate a single night in Treblinka, to tell of the cruelty, the senselessness of murder, and the outrage born of indifference: it would be enough to find the right word and the propitious moment to say it, to shake humanity out of its indifference and keep the torturer from torturing ever again.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • War
  • Night
  • Single