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Elie Wiesel Quotes about War

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The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

War, Believe, Gun

Source: www.nobelprize.org

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

War, Victim, Obligation

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.

War, Stories, World

Source: www.npr.org

When adults wage war, children perish.

Children, War, Adults

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

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

War, Holocaust, Bears

"Elie Wiesel, Nobel winner and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 87" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2016.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

Religious, War, Evil

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

Religious, War, Crisis

Source: www.nobelprize.org

I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill one another in civil wars. But most important, whoever kills, kills his brother. That's a moral conclusion that may not be there; but that must be my conclusion. Otherwise, why read it? Whoever kills, kills his brother.

Brother, War, Joy

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

War, School, Contradiction

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

War, Holy, Contradiction

"Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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.

Peace, War, Men

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

War, Night, Said

Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

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.

Children, Memories, War

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

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

War, Goal, Humanity

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.166, Schocken

The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet.

War, Responsibility, People

Source: www.savetibet.org

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

War, Years, Parent

Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

Laughter, War, Book

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?

Art, Military, War

I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

War, Paris, Paper

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

War, Israel, Generations

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminatedever.

War, Names, People

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

War, Stupid, Arrogant

Source: www.npr.org

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

War, Names, Doe

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.165, Schocken

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

War, Madness, Granted

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