Oskar Schindler Quotes
April 28, 1908 – October 9, 1974
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What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over — for I hate cruelty and intolerance.
Remark in 1972, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow 
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More Oskar Schindler Quotes
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— After witnessing a day of Nazi roundups of Jews in Krakow, as quoted in Schindler's List (1982) by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15
There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler— To Poldek Pfefferberg, in response to the question of why he risked so much, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow
I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.
Oskar Schindler— Response in 1965, to Moshe Bejski, one of the Schindlerjuden, who later a became a justice on the Supreme Court of Israel and president of the Commission to honor the Righteous Among the Nations, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow.
Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don't be afraid of anything. You don't have to worry anymore.
Oskar Schindler— Greeting 300 of his women workers he had saved from Auschwitz, on their return to his factory, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow
