Simon Wiesenthal Quotes

Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

All the things I've done are about duty and guilt: trying to do your best to better other people's lives.

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

We have responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.