Elie Wiesel Quotes
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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.
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After the war we reassured ourselves that it would be enough to relate a single night in Treblinka, to tell of the cruelty, the senselessness of murder, and the outrage born of indifference: it would be enough to find the right word and the propitious moment to say it, to shake humanity out of its indifference and keep the torturer from torturing ever again.
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I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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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.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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No human being is illegal.