When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets,… — 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
A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one… — 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
If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
“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
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
[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
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
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
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
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
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
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the enemy's trap.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
