"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American holocaust survivor, born 1928
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." — Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American holocaust survivor, born 1928
"Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought." — Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Nazi hunter, born 1908
"There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters." — Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Nazi hunter, born 1908
"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist." — Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Nazi hunter, born 1908
"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it." — Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Nazi hunter, born 1908
"Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that." — Mary Wigman, German dancer, born 1886
"Outside the open window, the morning air is all awash with angels." — Richard Wilbur, American poet, born 1921
"As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there, or a general raises his hand and is given the field-glasses, step off assuredly into the blank of your mind, something will come to you." — Richard Wilbur, American poet, born 1921
"The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin." — Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, born 1854
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." — Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, born 1854