Famous Quotes by Elie Wiesel

“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is Thank You, then that will be enough.”

“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.”

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

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life — that is what is abnormal.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

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.

The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened. You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed.

Man in the News; Witness to Evil: Eliezer Wiesel

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

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

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.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers.

Whenever an angel says 'Be not afraid!' you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory.

True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them.

I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.