Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
ELIE WIESEL
ELIE WIESEL
Elie Wiesel on dreams
Elie Wiesel75 quotes“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Elie WieselElie Wiesel My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Sarah ShawkatSarah Shawkat I really can’t put into words the feeling of setting a goal and accomplishing it. Sometimes the goals we set are scary, I’m a firm believer, if your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough. I stepped out on faith and let God do what God does best.
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