624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees,

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.

I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.

Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.