But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission… — 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
Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . . — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we… — 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