If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated.… — 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