A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer… And why do… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know"… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — 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
![“[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer… And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b5/elie-wiesel-341_answers_moishe-explained-to-me-with-great-emphas_1541018.png)
![“My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know" or "I didn't know." Then comes a period, followed by "Am I my brother's keeper?"” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/elie-wiesel-341_abel_my-interpretation-is-different-god-asks_1399388.png)
