Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel KBE (b.1928) is a Romanian-born Jewish-American professor and political activist. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
—Elie Wiesel
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
—Elie Wiesel
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
—Elie Wiesel
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.
—Elie Wiesel
Topics: Survival
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
—Elie Wiesel
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.
—Elie Wiesel
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
—Elie Wiesel
Topics: Justice, Protest
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is “Thank You,” then that will be enough.
—Elie Wiesel
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