Elie Wiesel Quotes About Silence
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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