Elie Wiesel Quotes

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.

- Elie Wiesel 

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

- Elie Wiesel 

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

- Elie Wiesel 

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment

- Elie Wiesel 

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

- 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 

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

- Elie Wiesel

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

- Elie Wiesel

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

- Elie Wiesel

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

- Elie Wiesel

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

- 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.

- Elie Wiesel

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

- Elie Wiesel

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

- Elie Wiesel

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

- Elie Wiesel

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

- Elie Wiesel

Peace is our gift to each other.

- Elie Wiesel

 

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

- 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

 

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

- Elie Wiesel

Some stories are true that never happened.

- Elie Wiesel