If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you. — 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
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and… — 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
He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill… — 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
Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[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 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
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — 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
![“Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/66d/elie-wiesel-341_chinese_except-if-it-has-some-historical-meaning_2405334.jpg)
![“I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fa4/elie-wiesel-341_children_i-want-to-go-back-to-the-child-i-used-to_1311866.jpg)
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![“Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ad2/elie-wiesel-341_dictatorship_young-people-want-to-learn-they-are-thir_1117085.jpg)
![“[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b7/elie-wiesel-341_jew_adolf-hitler-needed-he-didn-t-want-to-ki_495750.jpg)
![“[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/751/elie-wiesel-341_billions_chinese-are-a-huge-empire-now-you-ll-soo_28398.jpg)
