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

896

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

896

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

896

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


Elie Wiesel

896

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

896

Peace is our gift to each other.


Elie Wiesel

896

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


Elie Wiesel

896

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


Elie Wiesel

896

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

896

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

896

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

896

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

896

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.


Elie Wiesel

896

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.


Elie Wiesel

896

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


Elie Wiesel

896

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.


Elie Wiesel

896

Some stories are true that never happened.


Elie Wiesel

896

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

896

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


Elie Wiesel

896

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


Elie Wiesel

896

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