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Elie Wiesel

(1928–2016) Correspondent Kingdom of Hungary

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Elie Wiesel was a correspondent from the Kingdom of Hungary, best known for La Nuit.

Quick Facts About Elie Wiesel

Born: September 30, 1928
Died: July 2, 2016
Nationality: Kingdom of Hungary
Profession: Correspondent
Notable works: La Nuit
Known for: Night
Spouse: Marion Wiesel

About Elie Wiesel

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Presidential Medal of Freedom Nobel Peace Prize Prix Médicis Congressional Gold Medal Light of Truth Award Freedom Award National Humanities Medal Prix du Livre Inter

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Norman Mailer Prize Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Q11888857 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Lucien Barrière Literary Award Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Worship Medal of Liberty Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University honorary doctorate of Haifa University honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science Bordin Prize honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University honorary doctor of the University of Picardie Jules Verne honorary citizen of Jerusalem honorary doctor of the Florida Atlantic University honorary doctor of the University of Miami Great Immigrants Award Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris honorary degree from Spelman College honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

Quotes by Elie Wiesel · Page 12

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of…

Government

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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

Blind

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What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism."…

Jokes

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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a…

Anguish

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No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in…

Danger

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I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

Any

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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to…

Evil

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If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

History

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Changing the world

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“It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in…

Books

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Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Neutrality

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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Indifferent

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I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

Ambition

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Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

Found

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Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give…

Angel

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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Religion

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If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it.…

Anti semitism

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Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true.…

Day and night

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My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know"…

Abel

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I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the…

Conscience

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I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot,…

Certain

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I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic…

Admire

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It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our…

Alive

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You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

Heart

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The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone:…

Childhood

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Elie Wiesel by topic

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