Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
Elie WieselWords can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.
Elie WieselThe sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
Elie WieselStill I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.
Elie Wiesel