Quote

When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

Elie Wiesel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Humanist
Journalist
Judaic Scholar
Novelist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Professor
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Sighetu Marmaţiei
Eliezer Wiesel
A-7713
Élie Wiesel
Humiliated
Hungry
Child
Persons
Person
Children

More quotes by Elie Wiesel

Image
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
Elie Wiesel
Image
A man can laugh while he suffers.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Elie Wiesel
Image
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
Elie Wiesel
Image
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
Elie Wiesel
Image
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty, and this is fanaticism.
Elie Wiesel
Image
In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.
Elie Wiesel
Image
We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.
Elie Wiesel
Image
There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.
Elie Wiesel
Image
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
Elie Wiesel
Image
It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
Elie Wiesel
Image
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Writing should not be routine writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
Elie Wiesel
Image
My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.
Elie Wiesel
Image
When adults wage war, children perish.
Elie Wiesel