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
memories evil noble
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
inspirational hope peace
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
ghetto car people
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
sides neutrality oppressors
Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
sparks moments eternity
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
fighting men different
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
real answers praying
[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.
religious mean night
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
arrogant doe true-knowledge
Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.
memories culture humans
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
education keys hatred
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
adventure swings stories
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.