Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment -… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here? — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not. — 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