Oskar Schindler quotes
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“I had to help them. There was no choice.”
-- Oskar SchindlerSource : Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.
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“I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.”
-- Oskar SchindlerSource : "Schindler's List". Book by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15., October 18, 1982.
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“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 SchindlerSource : Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.
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“He who saves a single soul , saves the world entire”
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“I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.”
-- Oskar SchindlerSource : "Schindler : Why did he do it?" by Louis Bülow, 2010.
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“Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.”
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“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.”
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“I am the conscience of all those who knew something - but did nothing.”
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“If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him?”
-- Oskar SchindlerSource : "Schindler : Why did he do it?" by Louis Bülow, 2010.
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Source : "We must rely on ourselves, says Sharon" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2005.
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“Our choices determine our destiny”
Source : A. R. Bernard (2016). “Four Things Women Want from a Man”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
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“All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here”
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“Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.”
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