Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the enemy's trap.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share