Oskar Schindler Quotes

• I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.

  Oskar Schindler

  People, Insanity, Sadism

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• Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

  Oskar Schindler

  Power, Justification

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• I am the conscience of all those who knew something - but did nothing.

  Oskar Schindler

  Conscience

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• I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

  Oskar Schindler

  People, Behave, Humans

  "Schindler : Why did he do it?" by Louis Bülow, 2010.

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• I had to help them. There was no choice.

  Oskar Schindler

  Choices, Holocaust, Helping

  Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.

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• If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?

  Oskar Schindler

  Dog, Car, Saws

  "Schindler : Why did he do it?" by Louis Bülow, 2010.

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• The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.

  Oskar Schindler

  Stars, Ghetto, Pigs

  Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.

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• I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

  Oskar Schindler

  Power, Defeat, Schindler's List

  "Schindler's List". Book by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15., October 18, 1982.

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