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 culture humans
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
pain endurance humans
The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.
illegal humans human-beings
No human being is illegal.
illegal humans human-beings
How can a human being be illegal?
destiny turns humans
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
behaviour certain humans
Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.
thinking worst humans
I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
important faces humans
The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?
suffering indifference humans
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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.