Schindler's List Quotes Flashcards
Quotes on heroism
“One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic” - Joseph Stalin
“He who saves a life saves the world entire” - Itzahk Stern
“The walls I can live with, it’s the restrictions on my life I am sick of.”
“It will take more than that.”
“they are mine!” - Schindler
“Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don’t” - Schindler
“That’s power, Amon. That. Is. Power” - Schindler
“In memory of the countless victims of your people, I ask that we observe three minutes of silence” - Schindler
“I could’ve got more” x 4 “I threw away so much money, you have no idea” “Geoth would’ve bought this car, why did I keep this car, that’s ten people right there. This pin, two more people. A person, Stern, for this.” - Schindler
“There will be generations because of what you did” - Stern
Quotes during the clearing of the Krakow Ghetto
“I wish this fucking night was over” - Amon Geoth
Quotes with a double meaning
“We do this to avoid that, it’s what we’ve done for thousands of years” - A nazi member
“Nice things cost money” - Schindler
“Oskar schindler, he did something extraordinary, he came here with nothing, suitcase, and left with 2 steamer trunk full of money, and all the riches in the world” - this is what Schindler wishes for people to say about him
“Today is history, years from now the young of us will wonder about this day” - Amon Goeth
“I pardon you” sike kills little boy - Goeth
Ignorant quotes
“In fact, the worse things get, the better you’ll do” - Stern
“Goodbye jews!” - annoying little girl
“Couldn’t be better” - Schindler directly followed by “How could this possibly be any worse!”
“Makes no difference to us, this one, that one, it’s just paperwork.” - train workers
“What if I’d got here five minutes later, then what would I be?” - Schindler
“There is nowhere down from here.”
“By this evening, those 6 centuries will be a rumour, they never happened, today is history” - Amon Goeth
“They’re not gone, they’re here” - Goeth
“You know who I am? I’m Schindler”
“I know your sufferings, Helen” - Schindler
Quotes on fear
“I’m not going to hide like some animal” vs “there are places to hide”
“Look at the snow, look at the snow, look at the snow”
“War brings out the bad in people, only the bad” - Schindler
“It’s dangerous, it’s dangerous for me” “What do you want me to do about it!?” - Schindler
Quotes on safety
“They say your factory is a haven, they say you are good”
“The list is an absolute good, the list is life” - Stern
