We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes… — 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
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“But where shall I start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever… — 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