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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
— Elie Wiesel
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
— Elie Wiesel
No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith. Elie Wiesel
— John Ortberg
Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that.
— Elie Wiesel
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
— Elie Wiesel
A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.
— Elie Wiesel
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
— Elie Wiesel
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
— Elie Wiesel
We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.
— Elie Wiesel
You shouldn't act as a spokesperson for someone who's trying to impose his will on you.
— Elie Wiesel
Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know.
— Elie Wiesel
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
— Elie Wiesel
I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.
— Elie Wiesel
Ou do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
— Elie Wiesel
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
— Elie Wiesel
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
— Elie Wiesel
My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.
— Elie Wiesel
How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?
— Elie Wiesel
Some stories are true that never happened.
— Elie Wiesel
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
— Elie Wiesel
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
— Elie Wiesel
The danger lies in forgetting.
— Elie Wiesel
There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!
— Elie Wiesel
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
— Elie Wiesel
God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
— Elie Wiesel
The Red Army is advancing with giant strides ... Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to ...
— Elie Wiesel
When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
— Elie Wiesel
As a child I was afraid of death. I was not afraid to die, but every time I thought of death I shuddered.
— Elie Wiesel
At every step, somebody fell down and ceased to suffer.
— Elie Wiesel
Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
— Elie Wiesel
It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference
— Elie Wiesel
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
— Elie Wiesel
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.
— Elie Wiesel
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
— Elie Wiesel
Peace is our gift to each other.
— Elie Wiesel
Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.
— 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.
— Elie Wiesel
In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone.
— Elie Wiesel
If I love you more, will you suffer less?
— Elie Wiesel
Every moment is a new beginning.
— Elie Wiesel
I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen.
— Elie Wiesel
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
— Elie Wiesel
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
— Elie Wiesel
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it ...
— Elie Wiesel
You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.
— Elie Wiesel
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
— Elie Wiesel
We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.
— Elie Wiesel
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them
— Elie Wiesel
Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
— Elie Wiesel
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
— Elie Wiesel
