For me, every hour is grace.
From Elie Wiesel
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
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.
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