Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, forget not their son who calls upon them now. You well know, You, source of all… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Luz Castro "And then i explain that the world did know and remained silent. and that is why I swore never to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one… — 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