We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.
Elie WieselIn the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
Elie WieselThe knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
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