624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.

Every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.

One doesn't go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That's one of its mysteries.

When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is homecoming.

The only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

I understood his bitterness; indeed I envied it. He was losing a friend, and it hurt.

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations, not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

When my town shall fade into the abyss of time, I will continue to remember the light and the warmth it radiated on Shabbat