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Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

Rumanian-born American Writer

Lived from: 1928 - 2016

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 30 september 1928 Died: 2 july 2016

  • No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
  • None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
  • Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

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  • I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
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  • As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.
    Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
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  • Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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  • Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
    US News & World Report (27 October 1986)
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  • Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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  • I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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  • I had anger but never hate.
    The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)
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  • I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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  • I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
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  • If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
    Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
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  • In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
    Interview Oprah november 2000
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  • Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
    US News & World Report (27 October 1986)
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  • Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
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  • Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
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  • No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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  • No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
    Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
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  • Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
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  • None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
    Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
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  • Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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  • Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
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What are the most famous quotes from Elie Wiesel?

The two most famous quotes from Elie Wiesel are:

  • "I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how"
  • "As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame."

When did Elie Wiesel live?

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 and died in the year 2016.