To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
ELIE WIESELTo forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
ELIE WIESELHuman beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
ELIE WIESELIn the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
ELIE WIESELEducation in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
ELIE WIESELI have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
ELIE WIESELI swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
ELIE WIESELWe must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
ELIE WIESELA Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
ELIE WIESELA religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELJust as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
ELIE WIESELThe philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
ELIE WIESELOnce you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELI don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
ELIE WIESELOnce upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
ELIE WIESELI write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESELIn the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
ELIE WIESEL