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Danh ngôn của Elie Wiesel (Sứ mệnh: 5)

Some stories are true that never happened.
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.
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Peace is our gift to each other.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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.
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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.
After all, God is God because he remembers.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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.
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
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.
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.
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.