Elie Wiesel Quotes

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Liraz. "Yes," he conceded. "Usually worse." Hazael cut in. "My sister, Sunshine, and my brother, Light. You two should rally the ranks. You'll have us killing ourselves by morning.

The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

We can't afford to be killing one another.

I want to stop war, and I want to stop disease.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.