Germany famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss
-- Adolf Hitler -
Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany
-- Adolf Hitler -
Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
-- Al Walser -
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
-- Albert Camus -
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
-- Albert Einstein -
Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
One thing about Germany - they'll be organised, they'll be big and they'll be strong.
-- Ally McCoist -
My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
-- Angela Merkel -
At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
-- Angela Merkel -
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina -
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.
-- Arthur Keith -
The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.
-- Arthur Seyss-Inquart -
I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.
-- Austen Chamberlain -
He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.
-- Baldur von Schirach -
America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.
-- Bernhard Langer -
I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
-- Boris Kodjoe -
For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali -
After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
-- Brian Mulroney -
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
-- C. L. R. James -
If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
-- C. Wright Mills -
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions
-- Carroll Quigley -
Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews
-- Chaim Weizmann -
There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
-- Chaim Weizmann -
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933...Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.
-- Chris Frantz -
Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.
-- Claudia Schiffer -
It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.
-- Claudia Schiffer -
If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.
-- David Lloyd George -
Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.
-- David Lloyd George -
Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.
-- Donella Meadows -
Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.
-- Douglas Hurd -
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
-- Douglas Hurd -
We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
-- Douglas Hurd -
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
-- E. P. Thompson -
Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
-- Eduard Shevardnadze -
You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.
-- Edward VII -
When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would go bankrupt.
-- Edwin Black -
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.
-- Emily Greene Balch -
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
-- Ernst Zundel -
One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.
-- Evan Davis -
Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
-- Fatos Nano -
I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.
-- Francois Mauriac -
It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
-- Frank Carlucci -
I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.
-- Franka Potente -
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
-- Franz Halder -
An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.
-- Franz Mehring -
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
-- Franz von Papen -
A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.
-- Frederick The Great -
The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly provide the sharpest preventative measures against the continued attack-politics Germany undertook. Possibilities existed for this, but no measures were seized upon.
-- Friedrich Kellner -
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
-- Friedrich List -
In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orgaÂnismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general systems theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.
-- Fritjof Capra -
I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!
-- Fritz Sauckel -
What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.
-- Georg Baselitz -
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
-- George Foreman -
Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.
-- Gerhard Schroder -
I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.
-- Giulio Andreotti -
While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.
-- Gordon Cooper -
The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay
-- Goronwy Rees -
In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit.
-- Grace Slick -
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
-- Graham Coxon -
You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
-- Graham Taylor -
What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.
-- Gunter Grass -
I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
-- Gustav Heinemann -
Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
-- Gustav Heinemann -
Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.
-- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach -
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.
-- Gustav Stresemann -
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
-- Gustav Stresemann -
The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.
-- Gustav Stresemann -
Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.
-- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani -
Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.
-- Hans Frank -
I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.
-- Harry E. Sloan -
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.
-- Heinrich Himmler -
Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.
-- Helmut Kohl -
Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
-- Helmut Kohl -
We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.
-- Henning von Tresckow -
Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.
-- Idi Amin -
Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them.
-- Jacob Appelbaum -
I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
-- James Boswell -
Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
-- James F. Byrnes -
Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.
-- James F. Byrnes
