64 Quotes by Simon Wiesenthal

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

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

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.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews.