624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

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

I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.