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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity. Simon Wiesenthal Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived. Simon Wiesenthal Read Quote