Elie Wiesel Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• 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

• Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Remember, Mankind

• Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, War, Men

• A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fighting, Men, Waiting

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.193, Schocken

• Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Events, World

• I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Past, Mankind

• In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Writing, Biblical

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.4, Hill and Wang

• What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

  Elie Wiesel

  Fall, Men, Allies

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.97, Schocken

• It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ghetto, People, Car

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

• I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Thinking, Offering

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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