Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted… — 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