Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
11 quotes.
Quotes by Elie Wiesel
- Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
- Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
- In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
- Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
- Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
- One person of integrity can make a difference.
- The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
- 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.
- What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
- When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'