Simon Wiesenthal Quotes

Austria, Activist
December 31, 1908 – September, 20, 2005.

Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp (late 1941 to September 1944), the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp (September to October 1944), the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (February to 5 May 1945).

Also known as Architect

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

Simon Wiesenthal
- Evil
- Flourish
- Good Men
Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day.

Simon Wiesenthal
- Freedom
- Fight
- Gift

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

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

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- Smile
- Humour
- Pains
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

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- Power
- Hands
- Genocide
The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

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Tolerance and human rights require each other.

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There is no freedom without justice.

Simon Wiesenthal
- Freedom
- Justice

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

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

Simon Wiesenthal
- Generation
- Hear
- Tell