624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Humanity would never tolerate it

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more ...

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.