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
attraction express felt towards
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
century community define desire duty enter expressed generation identity meaning members noble solidarity themselves
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
broken heart hearts means thousand
Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
fights israel
At this moment, Israel fights for her existence,
continue learn matter people shall
We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn from our history.
corpse depths eyes left
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
favor free help involved people
I am so in favor of being involved in other people's causes, other people's fights. If a people is oppressed, we must help those people free themselves.
left stared
Night. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
becomes hater oppose simply
Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, ... The hater has power. ... All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
teacher
I had a teacher that always told me, 'Don't promise, because if you promise, you must keep it.' I promised, so here I am.
politics
I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.
good moments personal poor religion
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
commentary eternal great happiness love
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
constant
If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.