624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.