Frases de Elie Wiesel
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Eliezer Wiesel es un escritor húngaro de nacionalidad rumana superviviente de los campos de concentración nazis. Ha dedicado toda su vida a escribir y a hablar sobre los horrores del Holocausto, con la firme intención de evitar que se repita en el mundo una barbarie similar. Fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1986.

✵ 30. septiembre 1928 – 2. julio 2016
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Elie Wiesel: 166 citas2 Me gusta

Frases célebres de Elie Wiesel

“La indiferencia, para mí, es la personificación del mal.”

Elie Wiesel

US News & World Report (27 de octubre de 1986).

“Desde tiempos inmemoriales la gente ha hablado de paz, pero no la ha conseguido. ¿Será sencillamente que carecemos de suficiente experiencia? Aunque hablamos de paz, hacemos la guerra. A veces hasta guerreamos en el nombre de la paz. […] Puede que la guerra sea una parte tan intrínseca de la historia que no pueda eliminarse… jamás.”

Elie Wiesel

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.
Fuente: ¿Está la paz mundial en el horizonte?, citado en "The Watchtower" (15 de abril de 1991).

Elie Wiesel Frases y Citas

Elie Wiesel: Frases en inglés

“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”

Elie Wiesel

The New York Times October 15, 1986, MAN IN THE NEWS; WITNESS TO EVIL: ELIEZER WEISEL, By JOSEPH BERGER http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/15/world/man-in-the-news-witness-to-evil-eliezer-weisel.html

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

Elie Wiesel

It's a joke.
In a 1978 interview with John S. Friedman, published in The Paris Review 26 (Spring 1984); and in Elie Wiesel : Conversations (2002) edited by Robert Franciosi, p. 86

“Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.”

Elie Wiesel

As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation : Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136

“Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”

Elie Wiesel

A statement of 1968, as quoted in "How And Why I Write: An Interview with Elie Wiesel" by Heidi Anne Walker, in Journal of Education, Vol. 162 (1980), p. 57
Variants:
Some words are deeds.
Souls on Fire : Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters (1982)
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
As quoted in "Nobelists, Auschwitz, and Survival" by Robert McAfee Brown, in Christianity and Crisis, Vol. 48 (7 March 1988), p. 58

“That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.”

Elie Wiesel

Comments regarding US President Ronald Reagan's proposed visit to a Bitburg cemetery with then German President Helmut Kohl, on receiving the Congressional Gold Medal from Reagan (4/1/1985).

“The most important question a human being has to face… What is it? The question, Why are we here?”

Elie Wiesel

"“Why Are We Here?”, in The Watchtower (2006) http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2006768?q=Elie+Wiesel&p=par

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