Simon Wiesenthal

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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

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.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

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

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.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?