Believe Quotes by Elie Wiesel

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

— Elie Wiesel

I do not believe in collective guilt.

— Elie Wiesel

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

— Elie Wiesel

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the…

— Elie Wiesel

I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.

— Elie Wiesel

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

— Elie Wiesel

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with…

— Elie Wiesel

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

— Elie Wiesel

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation...

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For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

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For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of…

— Elie Wiesel

With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I…

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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness…

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Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that…

— Elie Wiesel

I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience…

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My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it,…

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But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come…

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Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but…

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I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple…

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The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the…

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Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this,…

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I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted…

— Elie Wiesel

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

— Elie Wiesel