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Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

— Elie Wiesel

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

— Elie Wiesel

What I do, I want to do with all my being.

— Elie Wiesel

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

— Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

— Elie Wiesel

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and…

— Elie Wiesel

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your…

— Elie Wiesel

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want…

— Elie Wiesel

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with…

— Elie Wiesel

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

— Elie Wiesel

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

— Elie Wiesel

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

— Elie Wiesel

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

All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to…

— Elie Wiesel

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

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no…

— Elie Wiesel

Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe…

— Elie Wiesel

A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill…

— Elie Wiesel

I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I…

— Elie Wiesel

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach…

— Elie Wiesel

Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a…

— Elie Wiesel

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

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

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

— Elie Wiesel

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