Oskar Schindler Quotes

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

To a reluctant admission of the necessity for State action, we join a burning belief in duty.

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Necessity has no law.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

People are nicer than economists give us credit for. The economists cannot understand why people would work long and hard to clean up a community after a hurricane. … Most economists don’t have any interest in or understanding of psychology.

I've been given benefits from the day I was born. A loving family. A great education. So I see it as an obligation, as a Christian and as a human being, to help.