The Judges Quotes

“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he remain untouched by the pain cause by absence. On the contrary, he recognizes himself in each cry, uttered or repressed, in the smallest rift, in the most pressing need.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference — numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“People are mistaken if they believe that the only choice is between silence and speech. One silence can hide another.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Why had they arrested me?

'Because of a word, perhaps, or a silent grimace,' Razziel Paritus suggested, stroking his beard. 'Or for something your parents were supposed to have done or said. In this country denouncing people is a social duty, a moral imperative, a kind of state religion. It's also possible they arrested you for no reason at all. That your only crime is your innocence.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

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― Elie Wiesel, The Judges