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
freedom men sovereignty
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
hate heart reason
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.
war years parent
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
night long holocaust
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
holocaust world events
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.
art pain literature
Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.
children believe single-child
I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation...
learning jewish-tradition immortality
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
gratitude men brain
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
children hate men
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not.
soul indifference sickness
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
wells fanatics
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
memories real imagination
Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.
deeds-and-words silence grace
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.