Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. Elie Wiesel Read Quote
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction. Elie Wiesel Read Quote
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn’t instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. Elie Wiesel Read Quote
I’m a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it’s easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it. Elie Wiesel Read Quote
One always goes back to one’s childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious. Elie Wiesel Read Quote
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. Elie Wiesel Read Quote
