Quotes about Humanity
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." ? Elie Wiesel
- Elie Wiesel
I speak from experience that even in darkness, it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. There it is: I still believe in man in spite of man.
- Elie Wiesel
Suddenly he stopped in front of me and asked for a cigarette. I had a package of Players in my pocket and wanted to give them to him. But he refused to take the whole package, saying quite calmly that obviously he didn't have time to smoke them all.
- Elie Wiesel
How was it possible that men, women, and children are being burned and that the world kept silent?
- Elie Wiesel
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
- Elie Wiesel
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
- Elie Wiesel
God does not create other people so we could turn our backs on them.
- Elie Wiesel
The word "chimney" here was not an abstraction; it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke. It was, perhaps, the only word that had a real meaning in this place.
- Elie Wiesel
And what do you take care of? What people throw away, what history rejects, what memory denies. The smile of a starving child, the years of its dying mother, the silent prayers of the condemned man and the cries of his friend: I gather them up and preserve them. In this city, i am memory.
- Elie Wiesel
Suffering is given to the living, not to the dead," he said looking right through me. "It is man's duty to make it cease, not to increase it. One hour of suffering less is already a victory over fate.
- Elie Wiesel
It is in man that God must be loved, because the love of God goes through the love of man. Whoever loves God exclusively, namely excluding man, reduces his love and his God to the level of abstraction. Beshtian Hasidism denies all abstraction.
- Elie Wiesel
We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Almighty is the Almighty, the last word for each of us belongs to him.
- Elie Wiesel