Germany Quotes - Page 13

• As long as [Mikhail] Saakashvili is president, I will be unable to prove my innocence in Georgia. Seen in this light, there is a positive aspect to my arrest in Germany. It will be much easier for me to refute the charges here.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Light, Long, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Would Be, Asylums, Deportation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Russia, Mutual Attraction

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

  Alan Cranston

  Believe, Japan, Long

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• I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

  Debby Ryan

  Military, School, Army

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• No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

  Tacitus

  Fashion, Laughing, Vices

  Cornelius Tacitus (1868). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus”

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• If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Criminals, United States, Doe

  International Conference on Military Trials in London, 1945. Minutes of Conference Session, avalon.law.yale.edu. July 23, 1945.

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• Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and ad nauseamque of the multinomial theorem, represented the best that academic mathematics could do in the Germany of the late 18th century.

  Richard Askey

  Science, Analysis, Infinite

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• It is true that no member state can be required to make payments to others. But if countries want to offer voluntary assistance, as in the Greek case, this isn't only allowed, but it's also in Germany's interest. We all benefit by ensuring the stability of the euro zone.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Greek, Benefits

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• Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Light, Optimism

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• The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was about whether Bolshevik Russia was better than America.

  Martin Amis

  War, Russia, America

  Martin Amis (2014). “Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million”, p.26, Vintage

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• Long live eternal Germany!

  Wilhelm Frick

  Long, Eternal

  Last words; quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" - Page 565 - by Jon E. Lewis, 2002, October 16, 1946.

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• Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, War, Mean

  "George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bob Balaban, John Goodman and Producer Grant Heslov Talk the Monuments Men". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Son, Two, People

  Last words, quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, 2002.

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• Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Fighting, Civilization, Names

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Elements, Reconstruction, Anti Semitism

  "Famous Trials: Cases that Made History". Book by Frank McLynn, p. 104, 1995.

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• The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the Reich was a matter of course for all National Socialists and for true Germans in Austria.

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart

  Party, One Day, Return

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

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• When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.

  Richard Sennett

  Country, Jobs, Writing

  Richard Sennett (2007). “The Culture of the New Capitalism”, p.87, Yale University Press

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• If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one.

  Klaus Barbie

  Thinking, Hands, Barbie

  "Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons". Book by by Tom Bower, p. 23, 1984.

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• In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.

  John Mearsheimer

  Fighting, Rivals, Littles

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.

  John Mearsheimer

  War, Air, Cities

  "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.

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• Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany.  That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Believe, Eye

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• Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

  Adolf Hitler

  Russia, Fields, Threat

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• National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe.  The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Simple, Europe

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• Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Winning, Europe, Creating

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