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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• Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

  James A. Michener

  Country, Russia, Expression

  "A Spelunker in the Caves of History". "Modern Maturity" Magazine, August 1985.

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• Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Cancer, Cutting

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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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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• The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Tears, Faces, Cried

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.51, Open Road Media

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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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• 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

  Able, Realizing, Genocide

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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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• There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Dog, Book, Water

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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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• I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

  George J. Mitchell

  Military, Agency, Office

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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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• Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Difficult, Fatherland

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• The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Realizing, Influence, All Time

  "The Trial of the Germans : An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 235), 1997.

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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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