My faceless neighbor spoke up:

“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”

I exploded:

“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?
His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:

“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.


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It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionis...
ELIE WIESEL
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childho...
ELIE WIESEL
If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, le...
ELIE WIESEL
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the...
ELIE WIESEL
It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.
ELIE WIESEL
Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming.

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ELIE WIESEL
I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.
ELIE WIESEL
There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gr...
ELIE WIESEL
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subse...
ELIE WIESEL
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He...
ELIE WIESEL
From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"...
ELIE WIESEL
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
ELIE WIESEL
For me, every hour is grace.
ELIE WIESEL
I never teach the same course twice.
ELIE WIESEL
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
ELIE WIESEL
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
ELIE WIESEL
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulf...
ELIE WIESEL
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two...
ELIE WIESEL
I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see somethin...
ELIE WIESEL
The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heav...
ELIE WIESEL
I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
ELIE WIESEL
For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
ELIE WIESEL
I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve ...
ELIE WIESEL
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can al...
ELIE WIESEL
I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I...
ELIE WIESEL
In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I estab...
TORSTEN WIESEL
After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University....
TORSTEN WIESEL
It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destr...
TORSTEN WIESEL
Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience ea...
TORSTEN WIESEL
Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.
TORSTEN WIESEL
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by...
ELIE WEISEL
The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.
ELIE WEISEL
It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF
Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerles...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF
Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that ...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF
My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm trans...
ELIE SAAB
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served ...
ELIE DUCOMMUN
The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF
There is a resurgence of the nation-state in Europe. These nationalist and protectionist instincts a...
ELIE COHEN
Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if th...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF
The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
ELIE METCHNIKOFF
It is often seen that in households where all members are exposed to the same danger, or again in sc...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intell...
ELIE DUCOMMUN
Both have understood what is at stake ... The Nasdaq move has completely changed the landscape in Eu...
ELIE DARWISH
Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
ELIE METCHNIKOFF
The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rat...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF
Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chanc...
ELIE SAAB
Double Fusion's unique approach will allow Midway to incorporate dynamic advertising into their lead...
ELIE WURTMAN
There is an abundance of creative talent in Jerusalem that has yet to be explored. By focusing on me...
ELIE WURTMAN
I've never had negative feedback.
ELIE WADE
We gave them the information, and they wrote the script. They did everything.
ELIE WADE
We make mortgage loans, so one of the things we put on the message is a list of things you need to b...
ELIE WADE
I knew it was wrong. I did not have the intent to violate the law, but I knew it was wrong.
ELIE NAKOUZI
I did it because I felt I was doing some good for the patients.
ELIE NAKOUZI