Simon Wiesenthal

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

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.

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?

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'

For me the Holocaust was 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.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

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

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day