There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

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About Elie Wiesel

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) 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...

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Truth can be found everywhere, even on the lips of drunkards, in the noisiest of taverns.

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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.

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More quotations tagged with “silence”

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

—Gertrude Stein

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If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

—Steven Wright

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For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we're stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.

—Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World

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Most often in the summertime, she's holed up somewhere with a book, sometimes not saying more than a few words in a whole day.

—Katrin Schumann in The Forgotten Hours

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One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.

—Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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