Top 180 Elie Wiesel Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Peace is our gift to each other.”

— Elie Wiesel

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2. “What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”

— Elie Wiesel

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3. “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

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4. “No human being is illegal.”

— Elie Wiesel

5. “Think higher, feel deeper.”

— Elie Wiesel

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6. “One person of integrity can make a difference.”

— Elie Wiesel

7. “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.”

— Elie Wiesel

8. “To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”

— Elie Wiesel

9. “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

Featured in: Freedom Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

10. “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

— Elie Wiesel

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11. “Even in darkness it is possible to create light.”

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Elie Wiesel

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13. “Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

— Elie Wiesel

14. “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.”

— Elie Wiesel

Featured in: Suffering Quotes

15. “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

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16. “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Elie Wiesel

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18. “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”

— Elie Wiesel

Featured in: Past Quotes, Quotes About Heart

19. “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

— Elie Wiesel

20. “I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.”

— Elie Wiesel

21. “The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

— Elie Wiesel

22. “Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Elie Wiesel

24. “Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.”

— Elie Wiesel

Featured in: Quotes About Stories, Helping Others Quotes

25. “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

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26. “Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”

— Elie Wiesel

27. “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Elie Wiesel

29. “Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”

— Elie Wiesel

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30. “I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”

— Elie Wiesel

31. “Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.”

— Elie Wiesel

32. “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

Featured in: Responsibility Quotes

33. “Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”

— Elie Wiesel

34. “When adults wage war, children perish.”

— Elie Wiesel

35. “Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.”

— Elie Wiesel

36. “God is God because he remembers.”

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37. “There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.”

— Elie Wiesel

38. “Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.”

— Elie Wiesel

Featured in: Quotes About Humanity

39. “I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.”

— Elie Wiesel

40. “And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.”

— Elie Wiesel

41. “Some stories are true that never happened.”

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

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Elie Wiesel

44. “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

— Elie Wiesel

45. “Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.”

— Elie Wiesel

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46. “One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”

— Elie Wiesel

47. “In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.”

— Elie Wiesel

48. “No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”

— Elie Wiesel

49. “Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.”

— Elie Wiesel

50. “Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.”

— Elie Wiesel