Top 82 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

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.

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 have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

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.

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.