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
people stories
People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
thinking worst humans
I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
children war adults
When adults wage war, children perish.
secret treasure triumph
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
pain compassion people
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
children culture shields
I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.
unique humanity criminals
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
life-is wounded
My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.
answers
Questions outlive the answers.
memories philosophy evil
I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?
easier conformist
It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.
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.
men genocide destruction
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
years people messages
Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes ... Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.