25 Powerful & Inspiring Elie Wiesel Quotes

25 Powerful & Inspiring Elie Wiesel Quotes

Last updated on January 4th, 2024 at 11:26 am

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Elie Wiesel was born on 30 September 1928. He is best known as a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored over 57 books, mainly in French and English. Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, is one of his famous books.

The thoughts of Elie Wiesel are inspirational and challenging. He believed that all people have a responsibility to confront evil in the world, give voice to the voiceless, and speak truth to power. We have collected these Elie Wiesel quotes that are powerful and have an inspiring message.

Elie Wiesel Quotes

โ€œNo human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.โ€

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: PARADE MAGAZINE (24 MAY 1992)

โ€œOnce you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.โ€œ

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: INTERVIEW IN WRITERS AT WORK (1988)

โ€œIn the beginning there was faith โ€“ which is childish; trust โ€“ which is vain; and illusion โ€“ which is dangerous.โ€œ

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: NIGHT

โ€œThe sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.โ€œ

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: DAY

โ€œSome writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.โ€œ

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: HOW AND WHY I WRITE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ELIE WIESEL
Elie Wiesel Quotes
โ€œIt is true that not all the victims were Jews. But all the Jews were victims.โ€
SOURCE: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPEECHES

โ€œEvery book that I have written corresponds to a certain immediacy.โ€œ

ELIE WIESEL

โ€œThere may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.โ€

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: FROM THE KINGDOM OF MEMORY

โ€œTo forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.โ€œ

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: NIGHT

โ€œI pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.โ€ย 

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: NIGHT

โ€œThe most important question a human being has to faceโ€ฆ What is it? The question, Why are we here?โ€œ

ELIE WIESEL
Elie Wiesel Quotes
โ€œThe philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.โ€
SOURCE: THE TESTAMENT

โ€œThe opposite of love is not hate, itโ€™s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, itโ€™s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, itโ€™s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, itโ€™s indifference.โ€

ELIE WIESEL

โ€œIn the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.โ€

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: MESSENGERS OF GOD: A TRUE STORY OF ANGELIC PRESENCE AND THE RETURN TO

โ€œI swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.โ€

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: NIGHT

โ€œAn indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman.โ€

ELIE WIESEL

โ€œNever shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.โ€

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: NIGHT
Elie Wiesel Quotes
โ€œWe believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.โ€
SOURCE: NIGHT

โ€œI have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes Iโ€™ve been closer to him for that reason.โ€ย 

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: โ€œMAN IN THE NEWS; WITNESS TO EVIL: ELIEZER WEISELโ€. WWW.NYTIMES.COM. OCTOBER 15, 1986

โ€œBecause I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.โ€œย 

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: INTERVIEW WITH OPRAH WINFREY

โ€œOnly fanatics โ€” in religion as well as in politics โ€” can find a meaning in someone elseโ€™s death.โ€ย 

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: THE JUDGES

โ€œSuffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.โ€ย 

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: DAY

โ€œWhen a person doesnโ€™t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.โ€

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: INTERVIEW WITH OPRAH WINFREY
Elie Wiesel Quotes
โ€œMy faith is a wounded faith, but itโ€™s not without faith. My life is not without faith.โ€

โ€œFriendship marks a life even more deeply than love.โ€

ELIE WIESEL
SOURCE: FROM THE KINGDOM OF MEMORY

The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University was named in Wieselโ€™s honour when he was appointed Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Boston University in 1976. He also became a close friend of the president and chancellorย John Silber.

Thatโ€™s a wrap! These are our favourite Elie Wiesel quotes. We hope you also got something to take away from these Elie Wiesel quotes and learn more about his personality. You can also check out these 40 Abraham Maslow Quotes On Hierarchy Of Needs & More!

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