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
tasks turbulent-times jew
The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.
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.
wall civilization magic
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.
library want ifs
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
writing reap
And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.
army firsts moses
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
dream vision may
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
hope holocaust despair
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
men meaning-of-life life-is
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
education use may
I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
action indifference danger
And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
stars eye sky
The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
answers found wells
Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.
fall men toys
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?