Quotes from Oskar Schindler

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

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

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

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.

The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

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

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

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

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

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.