Germany Quotes - Page 15

• At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Taken, Years, Divergent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.

  Simon Armitage

  War, Meditation, Ironic

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• 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

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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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• All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Party, Technique

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort is under way to establish a national league of professional volleyball teams, and if you have ever seen the great women's teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.

  James A. Michener

  Sports, Volleyball, Fun

  "Sports in America".

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• If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

  Harry S. Truman

  Winning, Russia, Way

  The New York Times (June 24, 1941); later quoted in "National Affairs: Anniversary Remembrance", content.time.com. July 2, 1951.

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• We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter.

  Heidi Klum

  War, Winter, Russia

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• Death is a master from Germany.

  Paul Celan

  Masters

  "Death Fugue" (1952)

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• The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Pigs, Iran, Iraq

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• What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

  Georg Baselitz

  Georg Baselitz, Norman Rosenthal (2007). “Baselitz”, Royal Academy of Art

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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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• The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.

  Vasily Chuikov

  War, Battle, Kiev

  "The fall of Berlin". Book by Vasiliy Ivanovich Chuikov, 1968.

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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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• Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

  Max Schmeling

  War, Victory, Criminals

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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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• I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Vacation, Firsts, Standards

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• As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Self, Europe, Paris

  "Q &A with Wolfgang Schäuble". Interview with Derek Scally, www.irishtimes.com. August 24, 2012.

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• The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Party, People, Would Be

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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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• 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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