Germany Quotes - Page 3

• Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

  Jonah Hill

  Three, World, Places In The World

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• I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.26, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Wish, Austria

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  War, School, Artist

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• Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Home, People

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

  Bette Midler

  Funny, Humorous, Memorable

  "Song: 'Marriage, Movies, Madonna And Mick'". 1985.

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• East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, East Germany

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of the German constitution, the right to asylum, applies. Nobody is questioning that. Irrespective of that, there is immigration that must be regulated, to bring skilled personnel to Germany, for example. We have to establish criteria for that. Their affiliation with the Christian-Western culture should be one of them.

  Horst Seehofer

  Christian, People, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, War, Axes

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• May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Love, Peace, May

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• When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

  Anselm Kiefer

  House, Eras, Nazi

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• If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Fall, Church, News

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• The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Japan, Roles, Austria

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Tears, Faces, Cried

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rise To Power, Political, Nazism

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.

  Erin Gruwell

  Groups, Way, Action

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Soccer, Sports

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• I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

  Skitch Henderson

  Orchestra, Munich

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• I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

  Richard Wagner

  Fall, Long, Desire

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• Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

  James F. Byrnes

  War, Cost, Bears

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• The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

  James F. Byrnes

  Long, People, Want

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• A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

  Oliver Kahn

  Team, Games, Levels

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• With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

  Kelly Miller

  Fall, Strange, Defeat

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Iraq, Soldier

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• We believe that Almighty God has sent us Adolf Hitler so that he may rid Germany of the hypocrites and Pharisees.

  Robert Ley

  Believe, Hypocrite, Pharisees

  "Thus Spake Germany". Book by Władysław Wszebór Kulski, p. 30, 1941.

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