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
fighting men different
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
religious mean night
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
education keys hatred
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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.
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.
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
god remember
After all, God is God because he remembers.
book home tables
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
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.
killers victim concentration
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
believe serious endeavor
I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.