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 WIESELAll collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
ELIE WIESELHuman suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
ELIE WIESELThe most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
ELIE WIESELIn the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
ELIE WIESELTo remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
ELIE WIESELEvery Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
ELIE WIESELAn indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
ELIE WIESELThere is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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 WIESELI write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESELLife is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
ELIE WIESELI swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
ELIE WIESELFor nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
ELIE WIESELJust as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
ELIE WIESELEmphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
ELIE WIESEL