Simon Wiesenthal

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

“Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.”

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

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

“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.”

“כשכולם זלזלו בניצולים, שמעון ויזנטל חיפש רק צדק ונקמה.”

“מצאתי את רוצחי ההמונים אותם חיפשתי, וחייתי אחרי מותם. אם יש כמה מהם שנותרו, עכשיו הם קשישים מדי לעמוד למשפט. עבודתי הושלמה.”

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

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

“The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.”

“Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.”

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