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
opposites democracy way
For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.
writing opposites routine
Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
dark past opposites
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.
opposites i-hate-my-life apathy
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
thinking opposites people
I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.
opposites i-hate-my-life apathy
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
citizens jewish soldiers state valiant
We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers know that they are not alone.
tasks turbulent-times jew
The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.
pain loneliness suffering
If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.
lonely thinking different
I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.
morning writing up-early
Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.
pain betrayal people
I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.
stupid thinking world
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
writing language-words language
You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.