We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Thoughts arise in the hostage's tormented brain. In the hospital, patients feel they are returning to childhood; in prison, they age. The… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Never again" becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow. There will never again be hatred, people say.… — 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
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others… — 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
I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot… — 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
If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone:… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“I no longer ask You for either happiness or paradise; all I ask of You is to listen and let me be… — elie wiesel Copy Share Image
Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. — 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 when their… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — 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 should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — 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
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 Image
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 Image