64 Quotes by Simon Wiesenthal

There is no freedom without justice.

When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'

The end was surely near, ... The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

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

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive.

Violence is like a weed – it does not die even in the greatest drought.

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.

When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it.