Simon Wiesenthal Quotes & Sayings

18 most famous Simon Wiesenthal quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an Ukrainian activist who passed away on 20 September, 2005.

“Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.”

“Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.”

“God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.”

“What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.”

“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.”

“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.”

“Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.”

“Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.”

“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.”