Elie Wiesel II

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

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.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

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

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.