Elie Wiesel Quotes

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

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.

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

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

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

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life – that is what is abnormal.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.