Elie Wiesel Quotes

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.

In every war, there are always elements of blindness.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. Nations had risen against nations, employing the subtlest devices of mechanism and mind to waste, and excruciate, and overthrow. The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other. Wheel within wheel, the vast machine was instinct with the restless spirit of desolation.

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

I don’t pray often, but on this occasion I pray devoutly that the Armies of Europe may bleed each other till they faint with the loss of blood..

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness.

There are worse things than war.

In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

To me, war is so far from something I understand.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

There's never any guarantee at war.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.