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
action indifference danger
And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
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Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.
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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.
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My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.
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We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.
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I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.
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My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
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Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
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Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
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I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
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Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.