Schindler's List Good vs. Evil Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Schindler's List.

Quote #1

SCHINDLER: Just pretend for Christ's sake.

STERN: Is that all?

SCHINDLER: I'm trying to thank you. I'm saying, I couldn't have done this without you. The usual thing would be to acknowledge my gratitude. It would also, by the way, be the courteous thing.

STERN: You're welcome.

SCHINDLER: Get out of here.

Stern doesn't let Schindler get away with thinking he's a great guy. He made money on the backs of Jewish slave labor, and his magnanimous gestures to Stern just aren't going to erase that.

Quote #2

GOETH: For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history.

Goeth's talking about wiping out an entire community. Not just wiping them out but destroying the memory of them. That's the kind of evil we normally only associate with galactic emperors and Bond villains.

Quote #3

SCHINDLER: What if I got here five minutes later? Then where would I be?

Oskar still has a lot to learn about compassion. Hey, Stern was being carted off to death at Auschwitz. Maybe you aren't the most important person in this scenario, big guy.