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Simon Wiesenthal
Austrian
Activist
About the author
The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#Technology
#Danger
#Mankind
#Hatred
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,
Austrian
Activist
#Forget
#Today
#Waiting
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#Want
#People
#History
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#Years
#Power
#Genocide
Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#Violence
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,
Austrian
Activist
#Home
#Parents
#Church
#Silence
#Forgiveness
#Schools
#Denial
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.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#Man
#Information
#History
#Repetition
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,
Austrian
Activist
#People
#End
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#Nothing
#Evil
#Men
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#Survival
#Privilege
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#Justice
#Humanity
#Limitations
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,
Austrian
Activist
#Duty
#Conscience
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#People
#Smile
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#God
We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#People
#Being
#Nation
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.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#People
#Law
#Tragedy
#Victims
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian
Activist
#Technology
#Hatred
#Disaster