Simon Wiesenthal Zitate auf Englisch

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Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

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?

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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.

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

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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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God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

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

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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

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