Germany Quotes - Page 33

• In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit.

  Grace Slick

  Guy, Bars, Fit

  "Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir". Book by Grace Slick and Andrea Cagan, 1998.

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• Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

  Joseph Stalin

  People, Comes And Goes

  The Order #55 of the National Commissar for the Defense, February 23, 1942.

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• Then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Believe, Cuba

  "THREATS AND RESPONSES: GERMANY; Rumsfeld Faces Tense Greeting and Antiwar Rallies in Munich". www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2003.

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• The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Winning, Cities

  "The United States strategic bombing surveys European War Pacific War", (p. 41), September 30, 1945.

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• [Could] motor cars could be produced [in a country like Germany] and sold in competition in the American market . . . .In my opinion it is impossible to reach the conclusion that competition from without can ever be any factor whatsoever?

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Country, Car, Competition

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• I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

  Arthur Wimperis

  Country, War, Class

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• The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spiritual, Home, Years

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• Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, School

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• The worst criminals of our time are the US and UK governments. Both are devoid of all integrity, all honor, all mercy, all humanity. Many members of both governments would have made perfect functionaries in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Integrity, Russia, Government

  Paul Craig Roberts (2014). “How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State”, p.378, Atwell Publishing

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• We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Freedom, People

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• More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.

  Adolf Hitler

  Easter, Uprising, People

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• There is no question that a breakup of the euro would be very damaging, very costly, both financially and politically. And the biggest loss would be incurred by Germany. Germans have to bear in mind that, effectively, they have suffered practically no losses so far. Transfers have all been in the form of loans, and it is only when the loans are not repaid that real losses will be incurred.

  George Soros

  Breakup, Real, Loss

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Germany will always do the minimum to preserve the euro. Doing the minimum, though, will perpetuate the situation where the debtor countries in Europe have to pay tremendous premiums to refinance their debt. The result will be a Europe in which Germany is seen as an imperial power that will not be loved and admired by the rest of Europe - but hated and resisted, because it will perceived as an oppressive power.

  George Soros

  Country, Europe, Debtors

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place.

  George Soros

  Country, Doubt, Reform

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.

  George Soros

  Country, Struggle, Europe

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Germans tend to forget now that the euro was largely a Franco-German creation. No country has benefited more from the euro than Germany, both politically and economically. Therefore what has happened as a result of the introduction of the euro is largely Germany's its responsibility.

  George Soros

  Country, Responsibility, Forget

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.

  George Soros

  Europe, Support, Vision

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled into what happened pre-WW2.

  David Cross

  Mean, Sound, Ww2

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• A woman in Germany gave birth to a 13 1/2 pound baby. That baby was so fat his first word was strudel.

  Craig Ferguson

  Baby, Firsts, Pounds

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• After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.

  Oliver Kahn

  Challenges, Clubs, Normal

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• Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc.

  Michala Petri

  Thinking, Culture, Etc

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• When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.

  Joseph Brodsky

  California, Literature, Said

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• Real Madrid is a legendary team that stands above all others and is the target of all players.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Real, Team, Player

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• You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Dutch, Knows, Bits

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• What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Thanks

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