Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

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

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain