If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.An Interview with Elie Wiesel, Commonweal Magazine, 1986
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Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, and Holocaust survivor. He is best known for his memoir "Night," which vividly recounts his experiences as a teenager in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel dedicated his life to promoting tolerance, remembrance, and justice through his powerful writings and advocacy work.
1928–2016·lived 87 years
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.An Interview with Elie Wiesel, Commonweal Magazine, 1986
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.Night, p. 115, 2006
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.This I Believe, NPR, 2008
Some stories are true that never happened.Stories & Truth, 92Y, 2023
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.Elie Wiesel [on Indifference], US News & World Report, 1986
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.Hope, p. 9, 1995
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.Night, p. 34, 1960
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.Biography of Elie Wiesel
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