Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. -Elie Wiesel Life
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. -Elie Wiesel Movingon
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. -Elie Wiesel Religion
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. -Elie Wiesel Hope
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. -Elie Wiesel History
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. -Elie Wiesel Truth
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. -Elie Wiesel Death
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. -Elie Wiesel Faith
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. -Elie Wiesel God
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. -Elie Wiesel God
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. -Elie Wiesel Best
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. -Elie Wiesel Thankful
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. -Elie Wiesel Faith
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Wiesel Hope
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. -Elie Wiesel History
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. -Elie Wiesel Future
I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics. -Elie Wiesel Politics
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. -Elie Wiesel Alone
