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
sides neutrality oppressors
Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
men blessing years
It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
arrogant doe true-knowledge
Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.
sparks moments eternity
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
holocaust tragedy answers
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
god remember
After all, God is God because he remembers.
ghetto car people
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
book historical-novels pages
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
hope mean imagination
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.
men soul depth
Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.
library want ifs
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
adventure swings stories
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
opposites i-hate-my-life apathy
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
people hatred indifference
It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference