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Discover Simon Wiesenthal famous and rare quotes. Share Simon Wiesenthal quotations about nazis, holocaust and hatred. "For evil to flourish, it only requires good..."
- For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. Simon Wiesenthal.
- Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. Simon Wiesenthal.
- What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. Simon Wiesenthal.
- Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought. Simon Wiesenthal.
- “God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.” ― Simon Wiesenthal.
- “Forgetting is something time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision” ― Simon Wiesenthal.
- “There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.”
- “For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” ― Simon Wiesenthal.
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- “You are summoned for no reason other than that you are a Jew, as if "Jew" were a mass term comparable, say, to "water" or "salt." Here is a bit of water, we say, and any sample of it will do.
- “But, unfortunately, the injured in this case (six million martyred dead) are incapable of exercising such prerogative or indeed if expressing any opinion at all.
- “For him we were as good as dead; each of us was carrying around his own death certificate, from which only the date was missing.” ― Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness.
- “Did he know already that he would get a sunflower when he was buried? The murderer would own something even when he was dead…And I?” ― Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness.
In Simon Wiesenthal's book "The Sunflower," the quote "Forgiveness is not ours to bestow, but only the Lord's" highlights the weight and complexity of the concept of forgiveness. In this quote, Wiesenthal emphasizes the idea that forgiveness is a divine act beyond human comprehension and capability.
Jan 9, 2024 · Simon Wiesenthal ( December 31, 1908 – September 20, 2005) was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp (late 1941 to September 1944), the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp (September to October ...
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