Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (; born September 30, 1928)

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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Tags: Faith, God, Lost

Elie Wiesel

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Tags: Good, Time, Better

Elie Wiesel

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Tags: History, Future, Fast

Elie Wiesel

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Tags: Life, Remember, Again

Elie Wiesel

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Tags: Before, Actually, Dies

Elie Wiesel

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Tags: May, Speak, Dead

Elie Wiesel

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Tags: Black, Little, Over

Elie Wiesel

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

Tags: Must, Sense, Reason

Elie Wiesel

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Tags: Betray, Transmit

Elie Wiesel

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

Tags: Believe, Jesus, Lord

Elie Wiesel

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