Quote

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

Elie Wiesel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Humanist
Journalist
Judaic Scholar
Novelist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Professor
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Sighetu Marmaţiei
Eliezer Wiesel
A-7713
Élie Wiesel
Believe
Spite
Mankind
Future
Past

More quotes by Elie Wiesel

Image
Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
Elie Wiesel
Image
After all, God is God because he remembers.
Elie Wiesel
Image
The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
Elie Wiesel
Image
In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.
Elie Wiesel
Image
You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
Elie Wiesel
Image
There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
Elie Wiesel
Image
I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].
Elie Wiesel
Image
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
Elie Wiesel
Image
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
Elie Wiesel
Image
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.
Elie Wiesel