Simon Wiesenthal Quotes

• Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Humanity, Justice

• The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Danger

• Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Privilege, Survival

• Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Hatred

• When history looks back, I waI’m more aware of time. The element of time. nt people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in History

  Tags in Time

• 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.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in History

  Tags in Man

• Violence is like a weed – it does not die even in the greatest drought.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Killed

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alive

• For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil, Men

• We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Collective, Guilty

• Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in People

• 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.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tragedy

• Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criminals

• What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Power

• God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in God

• None of my clients – not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin – was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Client

• Camaraderie ends when crime begins.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crime

• 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.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conscience

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forgiveness

Simon Wiesenthal (21)

Birth:	31st December, 1908
Death:	20th September, 2005
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Nazi Hunter

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