It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in… — 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
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. — 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
The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a… — 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
