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
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly… — 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
... 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
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“How was it possible that men, women, and children are being burned and that the world kept silent?” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence. — 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
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 organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't… — 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
![“When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2ab/elie-wiesel-341_arrogant_when-i-see-what-is-happening-all-over-th_3076477.png)
![“[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/751/elie-wiesel-341_billions_chinese-are-a-huge-empire-now-you-ll-soo_28398.png)
![“[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)
![“What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9cc/elie-wiesel-341_babel_what-franz-kafka-says-about-the-tower-of_542076.png)
