Schindler's List (1993) - 7 quotes

Wilhelm Kunde: That's what they do. They weather the storm. But this storm is different, this storm is the SS.

Oskar Schindler: Why do you drink that motor oil? I send you good stuff all the time.

Oskar Schindler: They won't soon forget the name "Oskar Schindler" around here. "Oskar Schindler," they'll say, "everybody remembers him. He did something extraordinary. He did what no one else did. He came with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory. And left with a steamer trunk, two steamer trunks, of money. All the riches of the world."

Itzhak Stern: By law I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew.

Oskar Schindler: Well, I'm a German, so there we are.

Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

Amon Goeth: You think that's power?

Oskar Schindler: 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.

Amon Goeth: I think you are drunk.

Oskar Schindler: That's power, Amon. That is power.

Reiter: I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan.

Amon Goeth: Ah, an educated Jew... like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!

Hujar: Jawohl?

Amon Goeth: Shoot her.

Reiter: Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!

Amon Goeth: Ja, I'm doing mine.

Amon Goeth: 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. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it all the time. It's a matter of money? Hmm?