I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children. — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born. — 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