A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELA religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
ELIE WIESELYou’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
ELIE WIESELIn the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
ELIE WIESELEvery single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
ELIE WIESELJust as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
ELIE WIESELGratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
ELIE WIESELOnce upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
ELIE WIESELAnything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
ELIE WIESELThe opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
ELIE WIESELWe believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
ELIE WIESELEternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESELThis is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
ELIE WIESELSuffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
ELIE WIESELFor the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
ELIE WIESELThe most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
ELIE WIESELyou can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
ELIE WIESEL