624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.