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
Waiting, Alive, Makes, Resurrection
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Want, Back, Could, Impunity
Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Die, Like, Even, Weed
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Men, Nothing, Flourish, Good Men
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
Knew, Resist, Surely, Psychologically
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Technology, Hatred, Always, Blessing
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
Some, Other, Accuse, Collectively
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Humor, Oppressed, Weapon, Helps
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
Generation, Through, Denial, Hear
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Asking, Which, Entails, Survived
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Thousand Years, Connects, Genocide
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
Law, Next, Other, Victims
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Justice, Against, Crimes, Limitations
The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Mankind, Hatred, Threatening, Combination
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Important, Catching, Criminals
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
Through, Crimes, Defence, Repetition
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
Bad, Conscience, Everybody, Taken
God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
- Simon Wiesenthal
Holocaust, Been, Must, Leave
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