Schindler’s List Quotes (1993)
Itzhak Stern: The standard SS rate for skilled Jewish workers is seven marks a day, five for unskilled and women. This is what you pay to the Reich Economic Office. The Jews themselves receive nothing. Poles you pay wages. Generally, they get a little more. Are you listening?
Oskar Schindler: What was that about the SS? The rate? The what?
Itzhak Stern: The Jewish worker’s salary – you pay it directly to the SS, not to the worker. He gets nothing.
Oskar Schindler: But it’s less. It’s less than what I would pay to a Pole.
Itzhak Stern: It’s less.
Oskar Schindler: That’s the point I’m trying to make. Poles cost more. Why Itzhak Stern:should I hire Poles?
Itzhak Stern: How many cigarettes have you smoked tonight?
Oskar Schindler: Too many.
Itzhak Stern: For every one you smoke, I smoke half.
Itzhak Stern: Let me understand. They put up all the money. I do all the work. What, if you don’t mind my asking, would you do?
Amon Goeth: The truth is always the right answer.
Itzhak Stern: This list… is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.
Oskar Schindler: Look, All you have to do is tell me what it’s worth to you. What’s a person worth to you?
Amon Goeth: No, no, no, No. What’s one worth to you!
Mr. Lowenstein: I am an essential worker.
First S.S. Guard: Essential worker!
Mr. Lowenstein: Yes! I work for Oskar Schindler.
First S.S. Guard: Essential worker for Oskar Schindler.
Mr. Lowenstein: Yes!
Second S.S. Guard: A one-armed Jew. Twice as useless.
Oskar Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don’t know. If I’d just… I could have got more.
Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Oskar Schindler: If I’d made more money… I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I’d just…
Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
Oskar Schindler: I didn’t do enough!
Itzhak Stern: You did so much.
[Schindler looks at his car]
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