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
teacher teaching trying
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
teacher children teaching
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
mean punishment government
It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.
war names doe
Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.
hands accomplices can-do
Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
music giving tone
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
despair want overcoming
He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more ...
god talking people
I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.
wall knowledge rooms
When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t
memories writing hatred
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.
war madness granted
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
hurt secret loses
It always hurts when you lose a secret.
war contradiction holy
A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.
loneliness break-through bridges
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.