And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and… — 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
Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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
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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