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 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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• Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Keys

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”

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• A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

  Frederick The Great

  Funny, Horse, Humorous

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• The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is not an exclusively British institution. Read descriptions, for instance, of the over-organized, wonderfully systematic and "thorough" German war machine during the last war.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Humorous

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• I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

  Michael Fassbender

  Dad, Phones, Europe

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• America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

  Peter Hook

  America, Vinyl, Imports

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• ...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Fighting, Enemy, Would Be

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• We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

  Douglas Hurd

  War, Iraq, Britain

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• Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Russia, Forgiving, France

  Washington Post, April 13, 2003.

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• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Europe, France

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2005.

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• If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

  Simone Weil

  Past, Europe, Civilization

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

  David Clennon

  Country, Class, Climate

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• In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

  Kelly Miller

  Insane, Bismarck, Asylums

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”

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• You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Aunt, West Germany, East Germany

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• I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Found

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• Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

  Paul Crouch

  Journey, Los Angeles, Made

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• The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart

  Party, Austria, Pumpkin

  Speech in Berlin on April 07, 1938. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, 1966.

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• Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

  Klaus Fuchs

  War, Russia, Risk

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• 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

  Firsts, Heard

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• I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Culture, Tvs, Film

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• The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

  Method Man

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