Simon Wiesenthal Quotes

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

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

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

There is no freedom without justice.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

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

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

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

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

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 your ancestors.

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

No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

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

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

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

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.

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.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.