Elie Wiesel

"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."

"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."

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

"I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again."

"I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics."

"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."

"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."

"I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine."

"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."

"My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed."

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

"Not to transmit an experience is to betray it."

"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."

"Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments."

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

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

"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."

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