Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Oskar Schindler

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Czechoslovakian businessman Oskar Schindler.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List, which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit, who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, courage, and dedication in saving the lives of his Jewish employees.

Czechoslovakian - Businessman | April 28, 1908 - October 9, 1974

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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

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

Oskar Schindler

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

Oskar Schindler

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

Oskar Schindler

The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

Oskar Schindler

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

Oskar Schindler

I had to help them. There was no choice.

Oskar Schindler

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

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

Oskar Schindler

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

Oskar Schindler

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.

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

Oskar Schindler

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

Oskar Schindler