Elie Wiesel Quotes

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

Human, Silence, Suffering

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

Time, May, Times

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Elie Wiesel

Faith, God, Anger

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel

Life, Love, Friendship

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel

Love, Hate, Opposite

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.
Elie Wiesel

Death, Life, Remember

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Elie Wiesel

Faith, Human, Wrong

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel

Death, Before, Actually

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

Life, Once, Bring

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

Silence, Victim, Sides

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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God, Alone, Human

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.
Elie Wiesel

Faith, God, Mean

I write to understand as much as to be understood.
Elie Wiesel

Understand, Write, Understood

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Elie Wiesel

Gratitude, Humanity, Person

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
Elie Wiesel

Life, Love, Beautiful

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel

Truth, Words, Memories

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Elie Wiesel

Remember, Despair, Duty

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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Hope, Peace, God

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.
Elie Wiesel

Best, Remember, Desire

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.
Elie Wiesel

Knowledge, Mean, Philosophy

Some stories are true that never happened.
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Imagination, True, Happened

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
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Provoke, Prevent

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
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History, Jewish

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
Elie Wiesel

God, Death, Long

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Nationality: American

Born: September 30, 1928

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