Quotes About Oskar Schindler

#1. Schindler crossed limits that he didn't need to cross." Still, in the end she finds for Schindler: "Amon Goeth and Oskar Schindler, they both had power. One used it to kill, the other to save lives. Their example shows that everyone has a choice.

Jennifer Teege

#2. There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

Henry Reed

#3. People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

Thom Filicia

#4. Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

George R R Martin

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

Oskar Schindler

#6. Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Oskar Schindler

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

Oskar Schindler

#9. He who saves a single soul , saves the world entire

Oskar Schindler

#10. 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.

Oskar Schindler

#11. How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?

Bruce Poon Tip

#12. Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

Phil Collins

#14. Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

Carolyn Mackler

#15. The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

Oskar Schindler

#16. I loathe being crimped into this deplorable position on the vampyre chessboard.

Poppet

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

Oskar Schindler

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

Oskar Schindler

#19. I had to help them. There was no choice.

Oskar Schindler

#20. I'm not doing anything that hasn't been done before, you know...dying, it's been done to death.

Sondra Lynn

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

Oskar Schindler

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

Oskar Schindler

#23. 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