For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
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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.Simon Wiesenthal
God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
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Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.
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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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Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
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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.'
Simon Wiesenthal
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