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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• 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

  House, Eras, Nazi

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• May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Love, Peace, May

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• If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Fall, Church, News

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• 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

  Japan, Roles, Austria

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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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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• East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, East Germany

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Lying, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.169, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

  Donella Meadows

  Cutting, Netherlands, Denmark

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• The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Men, Usa, Want

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times, April 9, 1944.

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• The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Struggle, Fighting, Japan

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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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• 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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• 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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• A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

  Hans Frank

  War, Years, Holocaust

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