Germany Quotes - Page 11

• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Today, Conspiracy, Danger

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• 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

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Rose, Gains

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• [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

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• Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it.... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Responsibility, America

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• Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. So they allowed it to begin.

  Edward Thomas

  Country, Character, Fighting

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• The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.

  George Soros

  Grateful, America, Would Be

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• America felt victorious and generous after World War II. They had also learned from the mistakes after World War I when they imposed punishment on Germany. What became of Germany? A Nazi dictatorship which threatened the world. Today's Germany doesn't feel as prosperous and generous as America then. But actually, Germany still is very prosperous.

  George Soros

  War, Mistake, Punishment

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Europe, Ambassadors, France

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Allies, Looks, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.

  John McCain

  Rights, Decision, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

  John Darnielle

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "What’s Got John Darnielle’s Goat?". Interview with Emma Silvers, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2011.

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• We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.

  Mario Draghi

  Wise, Strong, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Baseball, Beer

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• It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

  Jane Goodall

  Japan, America, World

  Interview with Jo Menell, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• Germany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.

  Milton Friedman

  Problem, Mark, Rate

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.

  Milton Friedman

  Employment, Wages, Regulation

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What you have as a result of past policies is that German entrepreneurs go outside of Germany for many of their activities. They are investing abroad instead of at home because there isn't the openness, fluidity and opportunity they find outside their borders.

  Milton Friedman

  Home, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations.

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Goal, Population

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Country, Art, Stars

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe (2010). “Faust, Part I, Egmont and Hermann, Dorothea, Dr Faustus: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XIX (in 51 Volumes)”, p.209, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

  Albert Einstein

  Future, Winter, Science

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• My warning is: Be careful Angela Merkel. If you don't see the suffering that has been imposed on the rest of the European people, then Germany will make itself hated.

  Marine Le Pen

  People, Suffering, Warning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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