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
beauty fact government haven hope israel minister people persuade prime sadness
If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.
inspirational hope peace
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
hope holocaust despair
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
hope mean imagination
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.
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.