sparknotes
Schindler’s List
Important Quotations Explained
1. Stern: “.
. . The Jews themselves receive nothing. Poles you pay wages. Generally
they get a little more. Are you listening? . . . The Jewish worker’s
salary, you pay it directly to the SS, not to the worker. He gets
nothing.”
Schindler: “But
it’s less. It’s less than what
I would pay a Pole. . . . Poles cost more. Why should I hire Poles?”
2. Stern: “The
list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins
lies the gulf.”
3. Goeth: “Is
this the face of a rat? Are these the eyes of a rat? ‘Hath not a
Jew eyes?’ I feel for you, Helen. No, I don’t think so. . . . You
nearly talked me into it, didn’t you?”
4. Hoss: “I
have a shipment coming in tomorrow. I’ll cut you three hundred units
from it. New ones. It’s yours. These are fresh. The train comes,
We turn it around. It’s yours.”
Schindler: “Yes.
I understand. I want these.”
Hoss: “You shouldn’t
get stuck on names. That’s right. It creates a lot of paperwork.”




