Quotes from Elie Wiesel

Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations...

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait...

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

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 needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.