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- “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
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The Sunflower Quotes Showing 1-12 of 12. “To forgive without justice is a self-satisfying weakness. Justice without love is a simulation of strength.”. ― Hans Habe, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. 2 likes. Like.
- For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. Simon Wiesenthal. Men, History, Evil.
- Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day. Simon Wiesenthal. Freedom, Fighting, Heaven.
- 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. Law, People, Tragedy.
- The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind. Simon Wiesenthal. Technology, Hatred, Threatening.
- Book 1: The Sunflower Quotes. It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, which repeatedly “proves” that one is no longer a man.
- Sven Alkalaj Quotes. Forgetting the crimes would be worse than forgiving the criminal who seeks forgiveness, because forgetting the crimes devalues the humanity that perished in these atrocities.
- Smail Balić Quotes. Those who might appear uninvolved in the actual crimes, but who tolerate acts of torture, humiliation, and murder, are certainly also guilty.
- Moshe Bejski Quotes. Even if Wiesenthal believed that he was empowered to grant a pardon in the name of the murdered masses, such an act of mercy would have been a kind of betrayal and repudiation of the memory of millions of innocent victims who were unjustly murdered, among them, the members of his family.
Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower is a timeless and profound exploration of the human capacity for forgiveness and the enduring power of hope in the face of unthinkable tragedy.
The question of whether Nazis and Jews are of the same order of humanity becomes one of the central questions running through Wiesenthal’s account. “So that’s the news; we live in a world that God has abandoned?”
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness study guide contains a biography of Wiesenthal, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
― Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
