Author Time May Night Injustice There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel
Knowledge What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. - Elie Wiesel
Impulses Truth Words People Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. - Elie Wiesel
World Life Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. - Elie Wiesel
Beginning There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. - Elie Wiesel
Death God Man Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. - Elie Wiesel
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman