... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid. — 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
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly… — 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