Schindler’s List is about how a German businessman named Oskar Schindler employed Jewish workers in the factory he established in Poland during World War II, thus saving the lives of 1,100 Jews.
1. “He enjoys you so much he won’t even let you wear the star. He doesn’t want anyone to know it’s a Jew he’s enjoying.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
2. “For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history.” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
3. “The sun is going down.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
4. “I have to find every rag buried up here and burn it. The party’s over, Oskar. They’re closing us down, sending everybody to Auschwitz.” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
5. “My father was fond of saying you need three things in life – a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I’ve never had much use for.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
6. “The truth, Helen, is always the right answer.” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
7. “By law I have to tell you, sir, I’m a Jew.” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
8. “What I can do, if I’m any sort of a man, is the next most merciful thing. I should take her into the woods and shoot her painlessly in the back of the head.” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
9. “Why do you drink that motor oil? I send you good stuff all the time. Your liver’s going to explode like a grenade.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
10. “Is this the face of a rat? Are these the eyes of a rat? Hath not a Jew eyes?” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
11. “Their fingers polish the inside of shell metal casings. How else am I to polish the inside of a 45-millimeter shell casing? You tell me. You tell me!” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
12. “Ah, an educated Jew… like Karl Marx himself.” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
13. “Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I’ll be very unhappy.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
14. “This is very cruel, Oskar. You’re giving them hope. You shouldn’t do that. *That’s* cruel!” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
15. “In every business I tried, I can see now, it wasn’t me that failed. Something was missing. Even if I’d known what it was, there’s nothing I could have done about it because you can’t create this thing. And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
16. “ Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it.” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
17. “Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don’t.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
18. “It’s Hebrew, it’s from the Talmud. It says, ‘Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire’.” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
19. “He won’t shoot you because he enjoys you too much.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
20. “ I’d say I’d get you one but the man who made it’s probably dead.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
21. “They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see this. They have this power. It’s like a virus.” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
22. “ Let me understand. They put up all the money. I do all the work. What, if you don’t mind my asking, would you do?” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
23. “There will be generations because of what you did.” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
24. “He shot the woman from the steps because she meant nothing to him. She was just one of a series neither offending him or pleasing him.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
25. “Six hundred years ago, when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Casimir the Great – so called – told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold.” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
26. “This list… is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
27. “That’s what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he’s brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he’s going to die. And the Emperor… pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
28. “What’s the matter with you? You should be preparing for the Sabbath, shouldn’t you. I’ve got some wine in my office. Come.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
29. “For every one you smoke, I smoke half.” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
30. “Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
31. “I’m protected by powerful friends. You should know that.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
32. “ I could try to read this or I could eat my lunch while it’s still hot.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
33. “She’s not going to Auschwitz. I’d never do that to her. No, I want her to come back to Vienna with me. I want her to come to work for me there. I want to grow old with her.” — Amon Goeth, Schindler’s List
34. “ Don’t let things fall apart, Oskar. I work too hard.” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
35. “What are you doing? These are mine. These are my workers. They should be on my train. They’re skilled munitions workers. They’re essential. Essential girls!” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
36. “Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
37. “Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don’t.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
38. “I had to help them. There was no choice.“ — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
39. “I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
40. “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.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
41. “The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
42. “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, Schindler’s List
43. “I am the conscience of all those who knew something – but did nothing.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
44. “I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
45. “If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
46. “I’m not saying you’ll regret it, but you might, you should be aware of that.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
47. “I go to work the other day, nobody’s there, nobody tells me about this, I have to find out, I have to go in, everybody’s gone.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
48. “I could have got more. I could have got more, I don’t know. If I just…I could have got more.” — Oskar Schindler, Schindler’s List
49. “The list is an absolute good. The list is life.” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
50. “I know the destination. These are the evacuation orders, I’m to help arrange the shipments, put myself on the last train.” — Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s List
