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
cancer hatred immune
did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
mistake land world
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
war paris dollars
I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.
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You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.
opposites democracy way
For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.
thinking worst shows
I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.
stupid thinking world
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
pain betrayal people
I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.
morning writing up-early
Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.
lonely thinking different
I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.
pain loneliness suffering
If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.
tasks turbulent-times jew
The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.
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We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers know that they are not alone.