I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness… — 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
I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone:… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the… — 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
![“[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/19f/elie-wiesel-341_ability_memory-is-a-passion-no-less-powerful-or_906627.png)
![“I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2b2/elie-wiesel-341_alive_i-believe-in-books-and-when-our-people-c_2150158.png)
