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

 

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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This quote is just one of 9 total Simon Wiesenthal quotes in our collection. Simon Wiesenthal is known for saying 'Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.' as well as some of the following quotes.

None of my "clients" - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.

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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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Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster. -Simon Wiesenthal
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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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There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

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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. -Simon Wiesenthal
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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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