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
world remember
I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
deeds-and-words silence grace
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
philosophical believe mean
Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.
illegal humans human-beings
No human being is illegal.
death winning men
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
peace remember mankind
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
philosophy knowledge mean
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
thinking vocabulary people
I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.
book destiny people
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
inspirational positive encouraging
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
madness said certainty
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.
men suffering concern
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
wells fanatics
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
christian heart israel
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.