Elie Wiesel quotes

Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, and Holocaust survivor, best known for his memoir "Night." His works bear witness to the horrors of the Holocaust and emphasize the importance of compassion and remembrance. He became a leading advocate for human rights and received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. Here are 218 of his quotes:

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)
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. View quote
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. View quote
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. View quote
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. View quote
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. View quote
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences. View quote
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. View quote
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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. View quote
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. View quote
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. (Elie Wiesel)
I write to understand as much as to be understood. View quote
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Peace is our gift to each other. View quote
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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. View quote
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Some stories are true that never happened. View quote
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. View quote
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. View quote
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. View quote
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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. View quote
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. View quote
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What is abnormal is that I am normal. 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)
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... View quote
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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree. View quote
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I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . . View quote
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Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves. View quote
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Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel - Image
Occupation: American Novelist
Born: September 30, 1928
Died: July 2, 2016
Quotes count: 218
Wikipedia: Elie Wiesel

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