In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.
Elie WieselHe explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
Elie WieselHow can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference — numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.
Elie WieselJust as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
Elie WieselMy ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
Elie Wiesel