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
stupid thinking world
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
mistake land world
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
men world definitions
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.
today world not-interested
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...
powerful love-and-friendship world
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
holocaust world events
Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.
world remember
I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
hate years world
I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.
book firsts world
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Jiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
children world changing-the-world
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
world desperate reason
You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
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.