Simon Wiesenthal Quotes

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• My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.
• Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
• The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
• Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive
• 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.
• You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet…
• For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were…
• Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
• 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…
• 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…
• What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.
• No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.
• None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to…
• Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
• Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.
• 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…
• 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…
• Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.
• 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…

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