Oskar Schindler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I had to help them. There was no choice.
-- Oskar Schindler

#Holocaust #Choices #Helping
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
-- Oskar Schindler

#Power #Defeat
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
He who saves a single soul , saves the world entire
-- Oskar Schindler

#Soul #World #Save The World
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
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.
-- Oskar Schindler

#Power #Justification
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 #Brutality
I am the conscience of all those who knew something - but did nothing.
-- Oskar Schindler

#Conscience
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldnâ€™t you help him?
-- Oskar Schindler

#Dog #Car #Saws

The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust. Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.
The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
Our choices determine our destiny
All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.
You can't help the poor by being one of them.
A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

Oskar Schindler famous quotes

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