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
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.… — 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
The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Whatever you think in life… think higher and feel deeper, be positive.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In retrospect I must confess that I do not know, or no longer know, what I wanted to achieve with my words.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — 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
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