All Simon Wiesenthal Quotes
- My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren. Better
- Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster. Blessing
- The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. Generation
- Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive Deserve
- When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. Able
- Tolerance and human rights require each other. Each
- 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… American
- 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… Asking
- Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought. Die
- 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… All
- 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… Benefit
- What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date. All
- No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil. Any
- None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to… Born
- Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. Asking
- Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals. Catching
- 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… Bad
- 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… Ancestor
- Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster. Beneficial
- 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… Anew
- I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery. Cemetery
- For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. Evil
- Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. Happiness
- 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… Church
- Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. Crime