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
beautiful people essentials
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.
silence philosopher
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
suffering care groups
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
children fighting racism
If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.
death yoga heaven
When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
bystanders holocaust remembrance
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
america israel hearing
Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
book firsts world
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Jiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
giving-up order giving
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
gratitude mean night
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.
giving literature meaning-of-life
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
integrity differences making-a-difference
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference...
compassion suffering faces
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
life book evil
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.