They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are… — 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
Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see… — 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