Quotes from Elie Wiesel
I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.
- Elie Wiesel
Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.
- Elie Wiesel
Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
- Elie Wiesel
In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
- Elie Wiesel
It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel.
- Elie Wiesel
Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
- Elie Wiesel
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
- Elie Wiesel
I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
- Elie Wiesel
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.
- Elie Wiesel
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
- Elie Wiesel
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
- Elie Wiesel