If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end? Elie Wiesel More Quotes by Elie Wiesel More Quotes From Elie Wiesel The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it. Elie Wiesel gunwarbelieve A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human. Elie Wiesel paincompassionpeople You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries. Elie Wiesel jerusalemmysteryreturn In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. Elie Wiesel beautiful-wordsquestsbeautiful My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success. Elie Wiesel fightinggraduationinspirational Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait. Elie Wiesel hatebrotherwaiting Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. Elie Wiesel changing-the-worldchildrenworld I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive. Elie Wiesel takenmemoriesbook Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. Elie Wiesel survivalhelping-othersstories To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice Elie Wiesel holocaustforget Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others. Elie Wiesel survivalhelping-othershelping 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 holocaustmemoriespeople To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Elie Wiesel holocaustwould-beforget When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. Elie Wiesel gratitudegratefulmissing A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. Elie Wiesel elected-officialsreligiousanswers John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed. Elie Wiesel killingspeakchrist Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Elie Wiesel true-friendfunny-friendfriendship All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully. Elie Wiesel storieswarworld One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. Elie Wiesel ghettowalleye Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. Elie Wiesel brokenheartmean
