Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthalwas 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...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth31 December 1908
CityBuchach, Ukraine
CountryAustria
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Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
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God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
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Tolerance and human rights require each other.
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No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.
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None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.
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What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.
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Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive
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The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
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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.
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Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
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Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.
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Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.
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We thought we were going mad, ... Perhaps we feared (or hoped) we were mad already.
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to expose the plight of black slaves in Sudan and Mauritania, where today tens of thousands of black people still suffer the scourge of slavery.