Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of… — 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
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy?” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
“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
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
[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
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
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
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
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
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
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… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
“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.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
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