Quote

It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.

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
Years
Choose
Always
Whether
Men
Living
Humankind
Life
Death
Curse
Given
Ahead
Remember
Determine
Women
Destruction
Must
Blessing

More quotes by Elie Wiesel

Image
When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
Elie Wiesel
Image
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.
Elie Wiesel
Image
We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
Elie Wiesel
Image
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
Elie Wiesel
Image
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words Biblical criticism again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.
Elie Wiesel
Image
When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
Elie Wiesel
Image
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Am I my brother's keeper? There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
Elie Wiesel
Image
I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
Elie Wiesel
Image
The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
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
After all, God is God because he remembers.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.
Elie Wiesel