Germany Quotes

• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Thought Provoking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Successful

  Address to French Philosophical Society, Paris, 6 Apr. 1922

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• I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.

  Hermann Goring

  Kings, Russia, Laughing

  Remark on May 28, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

  Graham Coxon

  Munich, Berlin, Empty

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• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

  George Orwell

  War, Civilization, Cities

  1945 In the Observer, 8 Apr.

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• I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Country, Travel, Kids

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• My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

  Emanuel Celler

  Usa, Political, Grandfather

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• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  Otto Schily

  Love, Religious, Peace

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• We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

  Michelle Hunziker

  People, Insecurity, Looks

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• Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

  Lloyd Alexander

  War, Paris, Wales

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• 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

  Growth, Unemployment, Facts

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

  James F. Byrnes

  Allies, Assets, Made

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• What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong.

  Robert Ley

  Harm

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• But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

  Pierre Laval

  Policy, Practise

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• 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

  Ideas, Forever, Movement

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• whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, German Language

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 22 (1889)

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• Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Favors, Want, Dominance

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• Germany is very free-trade oriented.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Trade, Free Trade

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.

  Heidi Klum

  School, Dancing, Wells

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• Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

  Martin Landau

  Thinking, Guy, Wonderful

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• I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

  Richard Wagner

  Fall, Long, Desire

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• I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

  Kurtis Blow

  Teenager, Years, World

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• I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

  Ted Shackelford

  Shepherds, German Shepherds, Train

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• Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Stupid, Silly

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