People
- Elie Wiesel (born 1928), Hungarian-American novelist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, philosopher, humanitarian, and Holocaust survivor
- Emíl Wíesel (1866–1943), Russian-German painter and arts curator
- Torsten Wiesel (born 1924), Swedish medical researcher, Nobel Prize in Medicine co-laureate, campaigner for human rights
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“What people do who go into politics I can’t think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Of course you’re always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you’ll condemn them all!”
—Henry James (1843–1916)