Germany Quotes - Page 14

• 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.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Two, Pyramids, Evil

  "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.

  Robert Ley

  Secret, Weapons, Problem

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, (p. 118), 1947.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  War, Fighting, Turkeys

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  109 Copy quote

• Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it.  The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Numbers, Rose

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  18 Copy quote

• I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad.  As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour.  Germany does not want war of any kind.  Germany wants real and abiding peace.

  Rudolf Hess

  Military, Real, War

  89 Copy quote

• We havent done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the 90s, but they failed.

  Til Schweiger

  Done, Action, Action Movie

  5 Copy quote

• 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 pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Style, Pulpit, Preaching

  8 Copy quote

• 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

• I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.

  Wilhelm II

  Food, Cooking, Chef

  56 Copy quote

• 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

• 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

• As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  "Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 9, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

  Simon Van Booy

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

• 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

• It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Emotion, Objects

  4 Copy quote

• But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Baby, Home, Simple

  11 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