black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Elie 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 WIESEL

Angry Bite Cry Day Lips Wait
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
ELIE WIESEL

Dust Hope Man
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
ELIE WIESEL

Future Myself Past
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
ELIE WIESEL

Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
ELIE WIESEL

Collection Faith Inferior Judgement Religion
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
ELIE WIESEL

Choice Freedom Myself Suffering
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESEL

Change Life Protection World
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
ELIE WIESEL

Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
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 WIESEL

Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
ELIE WIESEL

Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
ELIE WIESEL

Education Learning Substitute Word
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

Crime Human Humanity Represent
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
ELIE WIESEL

Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate
One person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESEL

Difference Integrity Oneself Person
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

Change Destiny Human Ourselves Power
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
ELIE WIESEL

Allow Difference Hate Love Power

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Elie Wiesel Quotes