Elie Wiesel Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.”

“I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.”

“My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.”

“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”

“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.”

“Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.”

“In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.”

“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”

“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

“For me, every hour is grace.”