Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
ELIE WIESELEvery moment contains a spark of eternity.
ELIE WIESELYou’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
ELIE WIESELJust as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
ELIE WIESELEternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESELAll collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
ELIE WIESELIn the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
ELIE WIESELAnything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
ELIE WIESELEvery 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 WIESELSilence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
ELIE WIESELWhoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
ELIE WIESELEducation in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
ELIE WIESELOnce you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESELFor 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 WIESELMost people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
ELIE WIESELWe 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 WIESELWhen a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
ELIE WIESEL