56 ordspråk av Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal
(The ruling is) a victory of history over hate, ... Today's decision definitely places Irving where he belongs -- not as a historian, but as a leading apologist for those who seek to whitewash the most heinous crime in human history.
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[He maintained that his motivation was not anger but justice.] I am someone who seeks justice, not revenge, ... My work is a warning to the murderers of tomorrow, that they will never rest.
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A BLACK MARK ON U.S. HISTORY
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a man of action.
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A MOCKERY TO EVERY VICTIM OF 7/7
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But I am not a hater.
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Camaraderie ends when crime begins.
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Come, let us do honor to the man who has always honored us.
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deeply hurt because Kreisky and I are leaves of the same tree.
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
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For me was the Holocaust 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.
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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.
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Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day,
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God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
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Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.
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