Elie Wiesel

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

All this under a magnificent blue sky.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must _ at that moment _ become the center of the universe.

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Peace is our gift to each other.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

Some stories are true that never happened.

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

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. __abbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?_ And the master of the good name said, __hen you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.