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
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He had so examined his past that he could no longer look at it with enough detachment to tell what was true and what wasn't,
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On a strictly military level, the operation is a success. For that, and for his brave decision to pursue peace even at present political cost, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon deserves praise. But starting now, Israelis and Palestinians must face the question: What next?
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In any case, he had bungled his life. Bad husband, bad father, bad lover: failure all along the line . . . All the springs were broken. No more light anywhere . . . Everything he had tried to build had fallen apart. The little good he had done had resulted in fiasco. Whose fault could it be other than his own? . . . And anyone will tell you that if God Himself cannot undo what happened, still less can man.
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Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, ... The hater has power. ... All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
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Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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It's something that happens once in a lifetime, ... It would be silly on anyone's part to say it doesn't mean anything. It means something. It meant a lot of things. It was an important moment in my life.
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At this moment, Israel fights for her existence,
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If there is a crisis in the world, the U.N. should send a task force immediately, within 24 hours,
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I am so in favor of being involved in other people's causes, other people's fights. If a people is oppressed, we must help those people free themselves.
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Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.
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If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.
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You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.
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The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.
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I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.