World Quotes by Elie Wiesel

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

— Elie Wiesel

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...

— Elie Wiesel

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

— Elie Wiesel

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

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without…

— Elie Wiesel

It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.

— Elie Wiesel

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than…

— Elie Wiesel

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

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what…

— Elie Wiesel

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission…

— Elie Wiesel

[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you…

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[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world,…

— Elie Wiesel

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger,…

— Elie Wiesel

When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is…

— Elie Wiesel

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in…

— Elie Wiesel

I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience…

— Elie Wiesel

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had…

— Elie Wiesel

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

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

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt…

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There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly…

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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own.…

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... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True,…

— Elie Wiesel

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

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

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When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

— Elie Wiesel

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

— Elie Wiesel

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

— Elie Wiesel

“How was it possible that men, women, and children are being burned and that the world kept silent?”

— Elie Wiesel

The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only…

— 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

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world…

— Elie Wiesel

At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore,…

— Elie Wiesel

In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in…

— Elie Wiesel

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

We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't…

— Elie Wiesel

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the…

— Elie Wiesel

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment…

— Elie Wiesel