Top 82 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Peace is our gift to each other.

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.