Simon Wiesenthal quotes

There is no freedom without justice. (Simon Wiesenthal)
You're a religious man. You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Still another will say, 'I built houses,' but I will say, 'I didn't forget you. View quote
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Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. View quote
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Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. View quote
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The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Survivors should be like seismographs... They should sense danger before others do, identify its outlines and reveal them. They are not entitled to be wrong a second time or regard as harmless something that might lead to catastrophe. View quote
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. View quote
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The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind. View quote
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Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought. (Simon Wiesenthal)
God must have been on leave during the Holocaust. View quote
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Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. View quote
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What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. View quote
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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals. View quote
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For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people. View quote
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The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist. View quote
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Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster. View quote
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When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. View quote
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I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. View quote
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