Austrian - Activist | December 31, 1908 - September 20, 2005
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
Simon Wiesenthal
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
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Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
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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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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.
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God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
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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.
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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.
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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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When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
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The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
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The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
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