Elie Wiesel Quotes

And every human being is precious.

Even the vilest criminal remains a human being possessed of common human dignity.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

As to what we call the masses and the common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.

Slaves no doubt, but still men.

Every human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap by others, and far worse, that in our innermost soul we think cheaply of ourselves.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

All human life is precious.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.

Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.