All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
ELIE WIESELJust as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
More Elie Wiesel Quotes
-
-
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
ELIE WIESEL -
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
ELIE WIESEL -
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
ELIE WIESEL -
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
ELIE WIESEL -
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
ELIE WIESEL -
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
ELIE WIESEL -
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
ELIE 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 WIESEL -
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
ELIE 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.
ELIE WIESEL -
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
ELIE WIESEL -
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
ELIE WIESEL -
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
ELIE WIESEL -
One person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESEL -
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
ELIE WIESEL