Frases de Elie Wiesel (166 citas, página 4)

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“Lo contrario del amor no es odio, es la indiferencia. Lo contrario de la belleza no es la fealdad, es la indiferencia. Lo contrario de la fe no es herejía, es la indiferencia. Y lo contrario de la vida no es la muerte, sino la indiferencia entre la vida y la muerte.”

Elie Wiesel

US News & World Report (27 de octubre de 1986).

“La indiferencia, para mí, es la personificación del mal.”

Elie Wiesel

US News & World Report (27 de octubre de 1986).

“Desde tiempos inmemoriales la gente ha hablado de paz, pero no la ha conseguido. ¿Será sencillamente que carecemos de suficiente experiencia? Aunque hablamos de paz, hacemos la guerra. A veces hasta guerreamos en el nombre de la paz. […] Puede que la guerra sea una parte tan intrínseca de la historia que no pueda eliminarse… jamás.”

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From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.
Fuente: ¿Está la paz mundial en el horizonte?, citado en "The Watchtower" (15 de abril de 1991).

“Cada judío debería guardar, en algún lugar de su corazón, una zona para el odio, ese odio sano, varonil contra todo aquello que representa el alemán y que forma parte de la esencia de lo alemán. Todo lo demás sería traición a los muertos.”

Elie Wiesel

En su libro Legends of Our Time (New York, 1968, p. 177 y sgs.)

“¿Cómo puede explicarse que la Iglesia jamás excomulgara ni a Hitler ni a Himmler, que Pío XII nunca viera necesario —por no decir indispensable— condenar Auschwitz y Treblinka, que una gran proporción de los miembros de las S. S. fuesen creyentes y permaneciesen fieles a sus lazos cristianos hasta el fin, que hubiese asesinos que practicasen [el sacramento de] la confesión entre una masacre y otra y que todos ellos procediesen de familias cristianas y hubiesen recibido una educación cristiana?”

Elie Wiesel

En su libro A Jew Today, traducido del alemán al inglés por Marion Wiesel, 1979, página 13.

“El deber del superviviente es dar testimonio de lo que ocurrió, […] hay que advertir a la gente de que estas cosas pueden suceder, que el mal puede desencadenarse. El odio racial, la violencia y las idolatrías todavía proliferan.”

Elie Wiesel

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“¿Por qué estamos aquí?’ es la pregunta más importante a la que debe enfrentarse un ser humano. […] Creo que la vida tiene significado a pesar de las muertes sin sentido que he visto. La muerte no tiene sentido, la vida sí.”

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De muerte , De vida , Sentido , Pregunta

“Frecuentemente pienso que hemos fracasado. Si en 1945 alguien nos hubiera dicho que todavía veríamos guerras por motivos religiosos en casi todo continente […] no lo habríamos creído.”

Elie Wiesel

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De guerra

“Sostener que los hebreos debemos estarle agradecidos a Pío XII me parece, cuando menos, una herejía.”

Elie Wiesel

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“Elie Wiesel describe cómo le afectó el presenciar la ejecución de un joven en la horca. Los de la SS juntaron a los prisioneros enfrente de la horca. Mientras el muchacho moría lentamente, un prisionero gritó: “¿Dónde está Dios ahora?” Dice Wiesel: “Y oí una voz dentro de mí contestarle: ‘¿Dónde está? Aquí está… colgado de esta horca…’””

Elie Wiesel

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De fe

“Hubiera querido agregar: ¿por qué agradecerle? Hacía mucho que no comprendía qué había hecho el buen Dios para merecer al hombre.”

Elie Wiesel libro La noche

The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident

De hombres , De Dios

Elie Wiesel: Frases en inglés

“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.”

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“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”

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The New York Times October 15, 1986, MAN IN THE NEWS; WITNESS TO EVIL: ELIEZER WEISEL, By JOSEPH BERGER http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/15/world/man-in-the-news-witness-to-evil-eliezer-weisel.html

“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”

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“You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.”

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Elie Wiesel libro A Beggar in Jerusalem

Fuente: A Beggar in Jerusalem

“Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.”

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Elie Wiesel libro Day

Fuente: Day

“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.”

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Elie Wiesel libro La noche

Fuente: Night

“Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.”

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Fuente: The Judges

“To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice”

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“Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.”

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Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

“For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where hanging here from this gallows…”

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Elie Wiesel libro La noche

That night, the soup tasted of corpses.
Night (1960)

“If someone had told us in 1945 that in our lifetime religious wars would rage on virtually every continent, that thousands of children would once again be dying of starvation, we would not have believed it. Or that racism and fanaticism would flourish once again, we would not have believed it.”

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Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

“When I woke up, it was daylight. That is when I remembered that I had a father. During the alert, I had followed the mob, not taking care of him. I knew he was running out of strength, close to death, and yet had abandoned him.
I went to look for him.
Yet at the same time a thought crept into my mind: If only I didn't find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of myself…Instantly, I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever.”

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Elie Wiesel libro La noche

Night (1960)

“But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes no, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger.”

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Elie Wiesel libro La noche

Night (1960)

“The absent no longer entered our thoughts. One spoke of them who knows what happened to them? but their fate was not on our minds. We were incapable of thinking. Our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog. We no longer clung to anything. The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us. In one terrifying moment of lucidity, I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the void, souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either.”

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Elie Wiesel libro La noche

Night (1960)

“The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic…”

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Elie Wiesel libro La noche

Night (1960)

“How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.”

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Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

“What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism."”

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It's a joke.
In a 1978 interview with John S. Friedman, published in The Paris Review 26 (Spring 1984); and in Elie Wiesel : Conversations (2002) edited by Robert Franciosi, p. 86

“The Hungarian lieutenant went around with a basket and retrieved the last possessions from those who chose not to go on tasting the bitterness of fear.
"There are eighty of you in the car," the German officer added. "If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs."
The two disappeared. The doors clanked shut. We had fallen into the trap, up to our necks. The doors were nailed, the way back irrevocably cut off. The world had become a hermetically sealed cattle car.”

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Elie Wiesel libro La noche

Night (1960)

“Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.”

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As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation : Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136

“It seemed as impossible to conceive of Auschwitz with God as to conceive of Auschwitz without God. Therefore, everything had to be reassessed because everything had changed. With one stroke, mankind's achievements seemed to have been erased. Was Auschwitz a consequence or an aberration of "civilization"? All we know is that Auschwitz called that civilization into question as it called into question everything that had preceded Auschwitz. Scientific abstraction, social and economic contention, nationalism, xenophobia, religious fanaticism, racism, mass hysteria. All found their ultimate expression in Auschwitz.”

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Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)

“Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”

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A statement of 1968, as quoted in "How And Why I Write: An Interview with Elie Wiesel" by Heidi Anne Walker, in Journal of Education, Vol. 162 (1980), p. 57
Variants:
Some words are deeds.
Souls on Fire : Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters (1982)
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
As quoted in "Nobelists, Auschwitz, and Survival" by Robert McAfee Brown, in Christianity and Crisis, Vol. 48 (7 March 1988), p. 58

“That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.”

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Comments regarding US President Ronald Reagan's proposed visit to a Bitburg cemetery with then German President Helmut Kohl, on receiving the Congressional Gold Medal from Reagan (4/1/1985).