Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
Elie WieselIt's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.
Elie WieselIn the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
Elie WieselI still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.
Elie WieselI believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.
Elie Wiesel