Collection of most interesting and famous quotes by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Best Quotes by Elie Wiesel
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
Look if I were alone in the world I would have the right to choose despair solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Because of indifference one dies before one actually dies.
Man as long as he lives is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later God wins.
No one may speak for the dead no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
I was very very religious. And of course I wrote about it in ‘Night.’ I questioned God’s silence. So I questioned. I don’t have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith but I question it.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
After all God is God because he remembers.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
I was very very religious. And of course I wrote about it in ‘Night.’ I questioned God’s silence. So I questioned. I don’t have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith but I question it.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings hope too can be given to one only by other human beings.
Some stories are true that never happened.
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
The opposite of love is not hate it’s indifference.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
Peace is our gift to each other.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race religion or political views that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race religion or political views that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
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