Elie Wiesel Quotes

American - Novelist September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Future, Culture, Memory, Society, Would

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

Silence, Never, Oppressor, Victim, Sides

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

Time, Injustice, Never, May, Protest

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

Faith, Wrong, Race, Only, Human, Make

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Smile, Heart, Gratitude, Time, Me, Look

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.

Memories, Truth, People, Words, Think

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

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

Love, Hate, Love Is, Opposite

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

Moving On, Remember, Duty, Because

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.

Life, Death, My Life, Dead, Remember

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.

Women, Moment, Religion, Men, Political

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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Soul, You, Win, Lose, Sometimes, Spirit

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

Universe, Adventure, Story, Remember

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

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

Life, You, World, Protect, Bring, Must

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Hope, Only, Human, Despair, Just, Come

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

Life, Friendship, Love, Risks, Never

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.

Life, Love, Beautiful, Tea, Live, Talk

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Universe, Die, Place, Everyone, Killer

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

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Death, Indifference, Because, Dies

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

Man, Only, Destruction, Prevent, Provoke

My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.

War, Experience, Disappointment, Believe

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

God, Peace, Gift, Remember, Our, Mankind

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

Silence, Me, Violence, Language, Very

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.

Future, Car, History, People, Ghetto

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

God, Relationship, Man, Religion

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

Gratitude, Thankful, Humanity, Person

Peace is our gift to each other.

Peace, Gift, Other, Our, Each

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