Quotes from Simon Wiesenthal

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man which repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man. so when one begins to doubt one begins to cease to believe in a world order in which God has a different place. One really begins to think that God is on leave.

Siempre habrá personas con un punto de vista distinto. En mi país tenemos demócratas y republicanos. Aquí vosotros tenéis nazis y antinazis. Eso es lo que hace que el mundo no se pare.

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

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

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.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Anne Frank became a symbol of the million murdered children, and I tell it to the father of Anne Frank, the diary of his daughter had a bigger impact than the Nuremberg trial.

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.

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.

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

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

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.

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

There is no freedom without justice.