“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image