Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBEwas a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth30 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
children culture shields
I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.
lonely loneliness our-generation
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
witness
When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
bystanders holocaust remembrance
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
thinking worst humans
I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
believe people humanity
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
memories civilization would-be
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
opposites i-hate-my-life apathy
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
behaviour certain humans
Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.
thinking higher deeper
Think higher, feel deeper.
children world changing-the-world
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
surprise auschwitz
I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.
problem enough should
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
inspirational life success
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.