“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”
Anger
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
TimeAll Quotes by 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.”
Time“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.”
Alone“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.”
Alone“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”
Love“Peace is our gift to each other.”
Peace“No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”
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.”
Faith“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.”
Death“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Friendship“I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.”
Home“In Jewish history there are no coincidences.”
History“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”
Dreams“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”
Future“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.”
Best“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”
Experience“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.”
Knowledge“Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.”
Death“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.”
Religion“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.”
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