More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth. Elie Wiesel More Quotes by Elie Wiesel More Quotes From Elie Wiesel I do not believe in collective guilt. Elie Wiesel collectives guilt believe The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else. Elie Wiesel soap opera holocaust I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions. Elie Wiesel political persons ambition Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time. Elie Wiesel soup body night It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism. Elie Wiesel conformist easier What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall? Elie Wiesel allies men fall 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 ghetto car people I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah. Elie Wiesel offering mean thinking I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger. Elie Wiesel hate hatred children The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism and to Tibet. It's not only because of the Dalai Lama. It's because of what Tibet represents. There is a vast reservoir of knowledge, of mystical knowledge, which can be found in Tibet.The Chinese shouldn't be afraid of that really. They have other means of survival. Elie Wiesel buddhism mean past God means movement, and not explanation. Elie Wiesel explanation movement mean Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die. Elie Wiesel depth soul men It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference Elie Wiesel indifference hatred people In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind? Elie Wiesel biblical writing book The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference Elie Wiesel i-hate-my-life apathy opposites If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth? Elie Wiesel offering fellow-man men And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all. Elie Wiesel indifference danger action Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible. Elie Wiesel concerned humanity today I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake. Elie Wiesel needed knows joy In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. Elie Wiesel humanity dark rose
