Elie Wiesel

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

- Elie Wiesel

"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future."

- Elie Wiesel

"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no future."

- Elie Wiesel

"To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

- Elie Wiesel

"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

- Elie Wiesel

"The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

- Elie Wiesel

"“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”"

- Elie Wiesel

"And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

- Elie Wiesel

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

- Elie Wiesel

"Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere."

- Elie Wiesel

"And now, a prayer—or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive."

- Elie Wiesel

"I love Passover because for me it is a cry against indifference, a cry for compassion."

- Elie Wiesel

"“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”"

- Elie Wiesel

"[Albert] Camus said, ‘Where there is no hope, one must invent hope.’ It is only pessimistic if you stop with the first half of the sentence and just say, There is no hope. Like Camus, even when it seems hopeless, I invent reasons to hope."

- Elie Wiesel

"When we come together to listen and learn from each other, there is hope. This is where human dignity begins, where peace begins, where dignity begins: in a small gesture of respect, in listening."

- Elie Wiesel

"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."

- Elie Wiesel

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

- Elie Wiesel

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation."

- Elie Wiesel

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

- Elie Wiesel

"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving, and dreaming."

- Elie Wiesel

"Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words."

- Elie Wiesel

"Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words"

- Elie Wiesel

"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

"There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps."

- Elie Wiesel

"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

"Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness."

- Elie Wiesel

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or 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

"For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

- Elie Wiesel

"For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory."

- Elie Wiesel

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."

- Elie Wiesel

"Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or 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

"For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences."

- Elie Wiesel

"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving, and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning."

- Elie Wiesel

"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table."

- Elie Wiesel

"Action is the only remedy to indifference: the most insidious danger of all."

- Elie Wiesel

"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile."

- Elie Wiesel

"When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude."

- Elie Wiesel

""For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.""

- Elie Wiesel

"Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all who need us desperately."

- Elie Wiesel

"In Jewish history there are no coincidences."

- Elie Wiesel

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."

- Elie Wiesel