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
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children. — 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 believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born. — 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
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
I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children. — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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 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
The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student… — 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
“Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily,… — 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
![“I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fa4/elie-wiesel-341_children_i-want-to-go-back-to-the-child-i-used-to_1311866.jpg)
![“[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/quotes/img-quotes/751/elie-wiesel-341_billions_chinese-are-a-huge-empire-now-you-ll-soo_28398.jpg)
