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Elie Wiesel

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

-Elie Wiesel

alone

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.

-Elie Wiesel

alone

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

anger

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

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.

-Elie Wiesel

car

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.

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death

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

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death

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

death

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

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dreams

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

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experience

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

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

-Elie Wiesel

faith

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

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

-Elie Wiesel

friendship

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

-Elie Wiesel

future

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.

-Elie Wiesel

future

After all, God is God because he remembers.

-Elie Wiesel

god

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

god

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

-Elie Wiesel

god

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

god

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

-Elie Wiesel

god

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

-Elie Wiesel

history

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.

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history

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.

-Elie Wiesel

history

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

-Elie Wiesel

home

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

-Elie Wiesel

hope

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

-Elie Wiesel

hope

Some stories are true that never happened.

-Elie Wiesel

imagination

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

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

-Elie Wiesel

love

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

-Elie Wiesel

love

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

-Elie Wiesel

peace

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

-Elie Wiesel

peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

-Elie Wiesel

peace

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.

-Elie Wiesel

religion

Elie Wiesel

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

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

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

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

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

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.

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

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

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.

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.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

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

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

Some stories are true that never happened.

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.

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

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

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

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

Peace is our gift to each other.

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.

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

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