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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/forgetting-is-something-that-time-takes-care-of-but-forgiveness-is-an/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

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## More by Simon Wiesenthal

> [There is no freedom without justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/there-is-no-freedom-without-justice/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/when-history-looks-back-i-want-people-to-know-the-nazis-weren-t-able/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/discovering-witnesses-is-just-as-important-as-catching-criminals/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/we-know-that-we-are-not-collectively-guilty-so-how-can-we-accuse-any/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/you-re-a-religious-man-you-believe-in-god-and-life-after-death-i-also/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [But I am not a hater.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/but-i-am-not-a-hater/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/even-before-i-had-had-time-to-really-think-things-through-i-realized/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/the-end-was-surely-near-the-nazis-killed-you-only-when-you-were-naked/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/for-your-benefit-learn-from-our-tragedy-it-is-not-a-written-law-that/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/the-schools-would-fail-through-their-silence-the-church-through-its/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/human-rights-is-the-only-ideology-that-deserves-to-survive/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/no-gassing-took-place-in-any-camp-on-germany-soil/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/there-were-millions-of-such-families-anxious-only-for-peace-and-quiet/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/the-history-of-man-is-the-history-of-crimes-and-history-can-repeat-so/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

> [For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-wiesenthal/for-me-the-holocaust-was-not-only-a-jewish-tragedy-but-also-a-human/)

[Simon Wiesenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-wiesenthal/)

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