For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of… — 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
![“The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/47f/elie-wiesel-341_commandment_the-term-is-piqua-nevish-it-means-to-sav_1672506.jpg)
