--- title: "7 Jewish people Quotes By Elie Wiesel" description: "7 Jewish people quotes by Elie Wiesel. Plus more from Elie Wiesel and more Jewish people sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c5/elie-wiesel-341_cold_his-cold-eyes-stared-at-me-at-last-he-sa_59021.png" --- > [His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/his-cold-eyes-stared-at-me-at-last-he-said-wearily-i-have-more-faith/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c5/elie-wiesel-341_cold_his-cold-eyes-stared-at-me-at-last-he-sa_59021.png) > [I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-marvel-at-the-resilience-of-the-jewish-people-their-best/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbf/elie-wiesel-341_desire_i-marvel-at-the-resilience-of-the-jewish_265370.jpg) > [Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/some-of-the-men-spoke-of-god-his-mysterious-ways-the-sins-of-the/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/282/elie-wiesel-341_absolutes_some-of-the-men-spoke-of-god-his-mysteri_335654.png) > [The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/the-sincere-christian-knows-that-what-died-in-auschwitz-was-not-the/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc3/elie-wiesel-341_auschwitz_the-sincere-christian-knows-that-what-di_715560.png) > [My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/my-faceless-neighbor-spoke-up-don-t-be-deluded-hitler-has-made-it/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3b/elie-wiesel-341_care_my-faceless-neighbor-spoke-up-don-t-be-d_1552051.png) > [A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/a-jew-must-be-sensitive-to-the-pain-of-all-human-beings-a-jew-cannot/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89d/elie-wiesel-341_compassion_a-jew-must-be-sensitive-to-the-pain-of-a_1810038.png) > [Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/everybody-around-us-was-weeping-someone-began-to-recite-kaddish-the/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/047/elie-wiesel-341_jewish-people_everybody-around-us-was-weeping-someone_1856169.png) ## Other authors on Jewish people - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ariel-sharon-14601.jpg) Ariel Sharon 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-people/ariel-sharon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-shimon-peres-85014.jpg) Shimon Peres 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-people/shimon-peres/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-yitzhak-rabin-96788.jpg) Yitzhak Rabin 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-people/yitzhak-rabin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-judith-butler-53997.jpg) Judith Butler 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-people/judith-butler/) - [Dalton Lifsey 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-people/dalton-lifsey/) ## More by Elie Wiesel > [A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/a-religious-person-answers-to-god-not-to-the-elected-or-non-elected/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/one-more-stab-to-the-heart-one-more-reason-to-hate-one-less-reason-to/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/what-all-these-victims-need-above-all-is-to-know-that-they-are-not/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-feel-that-books-just-like-people-have-a-destiny-some-invite-sorrow/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [ \[Chinese\] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/chinese-are-a-huge-empire-now-you-ll-soon-be-in-a-few-years-two/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/did-i-write-it-so-as-not-to-go-mad-or-on-the-contrary-to-go-mad-in/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/take-the-story-of-cain-and-abel-why-were-we-given-that-story/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/mankind-must-remember-that-peace-is-not-god-s-gift-to-his-creatures/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/the-world-the-world-is-not-interested-in-us-today-everything-is/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/every-question-possessed-a-power-that-was-lost-in-the-answer/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-think-this-century-more-than-any-other-really-has-seen-the/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/his-cold-eyes-stared-at-me-at-last-he-said-wearily-i-have-more-faith/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/as-you-know-i-describe-shirat-ha-yam-as-part-of-an-epic-story-that/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/every-jew-somewhere-in-his-being-should-set-apart-a-zone-of-hate/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the enemy's trap.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/did-hope-help-us-to-survive-or-not-too-many-families-clung-to-it-all/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jewish-people/elie-wiesel/#itemlist", "name": "7 Jewish people Quotes By Elie Wiesel", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: \"I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. 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