Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So… — 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
I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure… — 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
![“I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f8/elie-wiesel-341_abel_i-may-be-a-descendant-of-seth-i-say-to-m_1573158.jpg)
![“The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/47f/elie-wiesel-341_commandments_the-term-is-piqua-nevish-it-means-to-sav_1672506.jpg)
![“[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/751/elie-wiesel-341_billions_chinese-are-a-huge-empire-now-you-ll-soo_28398.jpg)
