Simon Wiesenthal Quotes - Page 2

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

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

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

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

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.

No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.

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

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