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."
-Simon Wiesenthal

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."
-Simon Wiesenthal in Technology quotes.

"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."
-Simon Wiesenthal

"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."
-Simon Wiesenthal

"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them."
-Simon Wiesenthal in Humor quotes.

"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."
-Simon Wiesenthal

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

"For me was the Holocaust not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews."
-Simon Wiesenthal