Germany Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.

  Nina Arianda

  Dream, School, Training

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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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• Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

  Douglas Hurd

  Europe, Economic, Increase

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• Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Thinking, Air

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.5

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• Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Country, Crazy, Would Be

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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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• The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

  George Will

  Important, France, Revolution

  George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

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• What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

  Gunter Grass

  Skins, Campaigns, Faces

  "A life in writing: Günter Grass" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, Demand, Forget

  "French Presidential Candidate Hollande 'They'll Have to Listen to Me'". Interview with Mathieu von Rohr and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. March 12, 2012.

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• Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more women in the workforce, more children and more immigrants.

  Paul Achleitner

  Children, Long, Getting Older

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

  Tarkan

  Growing Up, Two, Culture

  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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