Top 82 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

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

When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.

I never teach the same course twice.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.