3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel 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.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel 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.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel 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.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel 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.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel 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.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel 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.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel 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.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
