Elie Wiesel Quotes

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Wars break things; they break stories.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War is about dead people.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

In the next war the survivors will envy the dead.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

I have been through one war. I have seen the dead piled up and I do not want to see another.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

I've walked on a lot of battlefields. Most of them are not haunted.

There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.