A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism… — 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
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing… — 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
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
I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence. — 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
“most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don’t know where else to find them.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death. — 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
One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. — 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