624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.

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

The danger lies in forgetting.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

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