Community Quote by Elie Wiesel

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When…

— Paul Theroux

I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small,…

— Elie Wiesel

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

— Elie Wiesel

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

— Elie Wiesel

[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner sovereignty, inner…

— Elie Wiesel

I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part…

— Ma Jian

The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].

— Elie Wiesel

Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not…

— Dalai Lama

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

— Sam Brownback

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

— Elie Wiesel

“Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans’ will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On”

— Heinrich Harrer

China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If it was…

— Joanna Lumley