Elie Wiesel On Life In A Concentration Camp
“I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.”
― Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
* Elie Wiesel was a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
“I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.”
― Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
* Elie Wiesel was a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.” - Gore Vidal
In Walden, Henry David Thoreau discusses, 'quiet desperation'. What is it? In your opinion, does 'quiet desperation' drive the human need for escapism? Does it drive a need for a sense of overall purpose in our lives? (Photo credit / Franck Michel)