I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment -… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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
We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain… — 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
Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world… — 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
