Quotes by Simon Wiesenthal

About Simon Wiesenthal:

Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian writer and Nazi hunter. He was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter.
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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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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.

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Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

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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.

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

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God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameSimon Wiesenthal
  • DescriptionAustrian Holocaust survivor noted for his work as a Nazi hunter
  • BornDecember 31, 1908
  • DiedSeptember 20, 2005
  • CountryAustria
  • ProfessionNazi Hunter; Writer; Autobiographer
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Grand Merit Cross Of The Order Of Merit Of The Federal Republic Of Germany; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Great Golden Medal Of Honour For Services To The Republic Of Austria; Order Of The White Lion; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Erasmus Prize; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom From Fear