Elie Wiesel Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Believe

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken

• I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

  Elie Wiesel

  Promise, Enemy, Threat

• Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

  Elie Wiesel

  Creativity, Evil, Enemy

• Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Enemy, Benefits

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

• In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Worst Enemy, Differences, Humanity

• I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

  Elie Wiesel

  Father, Son, People

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Philosophical, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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