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
coffee waiting tradition
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
illegal humans human-beings
No human being is illegal.
children people civilized-nations
Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.
philosophy knowledge mean
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
memories bears responsible
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
night long holocaust
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.
grace hours
For me, every hour is grace.
problem enough should
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
helping-others survival may
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
lying answers insistence
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
book destiny people
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
life friendship relationship
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
teacher teaching should
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
death holocaust stories
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.