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
optimistic people holocaust
Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
positivity hands waiting
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
suffering conclusion consent
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
mean heart broken
Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
real teaching thinking
I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
sin silent indifferent
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
motivational fitness exercise
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
writing understanding literature
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
death attitude indifference
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
positivity light darkness
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
strong hate love-is
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
mean communism nazi
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
speak killing pope
John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.
gratitude grateful missing
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.