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
When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the… — 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
If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end? — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you. — 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
If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away?… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much… — 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
[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no… — 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