Simon Wiesenthal Quotes

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

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

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.

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

There is no freedom without justice.

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

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

No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.