Elie Wiesel Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, World, Changing The World

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• ... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons in the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's [woman's] right to live.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Men, Offering

  Elie Wiesel (1993). “Sages and Dreamers: Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Portraits and Legends”, Touchstone Books

• We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Adults, Violence

  "Open Heart". Book by Elie Wiesel, articles.chicagotribune.com. 2011.

• There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Freedom, Integrity

  Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

• We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Hate, Men

  "Making Sense of a Senseless World" by Emily Bennington, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

• Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, People, Civilized Nations

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.180, Schocken

• I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, School

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, Guilt

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

• Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Guilty

  "Only the Guilty Are Guilty, Not Their Sons". www.nytimes.com. May 05, 2001.

• I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them, look, no matter what, you must have hope. You must. When I invoke Camus, who said when there is no hope, you must invent hope. . .hope is something that is not what God gives us. It's like peace. It's a gift that one can give to one another. Only another person can push me to despair. And only another person can push me to hope. Its my choice.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Children, Giving

• Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Blue, Sky

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Memories, War

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

• I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Culture, Shields

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Hate, Hatred

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  "Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

• I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Years, Waiting

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, Single Child

• When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Hungry, Humiliated

  Source: www.npr.org

• The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Morning, Stars, Children

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

• When adults wage war, children perish.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, War, Adults

  The Perils of Indifference, delivered 12 April 1999, Washington, D.C.

• The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Home, Feet

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.127, Schocken

• If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Fighting, Racism

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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