I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp.… — 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
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always,… — 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
I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — 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