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 was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying… — 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
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
I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from… — 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
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you… — 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 have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with… — 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
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
"Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel… — 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
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a… — 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
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
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
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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