Germany Quotes - Page 10

• In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, War, Reality

  Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Letters to a Young Conservative”, p.209, Basic Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rallying Cry, People, Way

  5 Copy quote

• Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

  Albert Camus

  War, Struggle, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.180, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Law, Principles, Ethics

  32 Copy quote

• Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.

  William Zinsser

  Mom, Dog, Food

  "Hot Dog Road Trip: A Patriotic Party Plan", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2009.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, College, America

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

  Oswald Spengler

  May, Produce

  18 Copy quote

• What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.

  Oswald Pohl

  War, Navy, Ruins

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

  Walter Schellenberg

  Brother, War, Government

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.

  Benjamin Carson

  Crazy, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

  W. G. Sebald

  Military, Cities, People

  4 Copy quote

• America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Communication, America, Silence

  7 Copy quote

• You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany

  Markus Zusak

  Gym Motivational, Wish, Motivational Exercise

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.195, RH Childrens Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

  Martin Rees

  Cutting, Canada, France

  "How science became cool" by Martin Reese, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

  Jose Rizal

  Independence, Spain, Stubborn

  25 Copy quote

• Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Suffering, Together

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Originality, Terror

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.129, Library of America

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Common, Certain

  5 Copy quote

• In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if you wanted to learn division, you could only do it in one place, Heidelberg. This makes sense, since in my theory with Vladimir Retakh and Robert Wilson, addition and multiplications are cheap, but division is expensive.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Age, Division

  12 Copy quote

• Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

  Georg Buchner

  Revolution, Cadavers, Paradise

  "The Hessian Courier". Book by Georg Buchner, 1834.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.

  Jerome Cady

  England And America, Russia, Enemy

  4 Copy quote

• America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

  George Soros

  America, Needs, Process

  20 Copy quote

• The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Rose, Gains

  9 Copy quote

• [Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Country, Powerful, Berlin

  4 Copy quote

• Germany must have her place in the sun.

  Wilhelm II

  Sun, Possession

  110 Copy quote