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Simon Wiesenthal [1908-2005] Austrian

Rank: 101
Activist, Nazi hunter

Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Nazi hunter and writer. He was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter.
He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II.

History, Technology, Forgiveness, Home, Humor, Power, Smile

Quote	Tags	Rank
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.		101
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.		102
Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.		103
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.	Humor, Smile	104
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.	Power	105
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.	Forgiveness, Home	106
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.	History	107
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.		108
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.		109
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.	History	110
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.		111
The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.	Technology	112
God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.		113
The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.		114
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.		115
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.		116
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.	Technology	117
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?		118

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