Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with… — 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
It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so. — 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
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure… — 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