Germany Quotes - Page 5

• Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

  Carroll Quigley

  Decision, Political, Roles

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

  Kelly Miller

  Broken Heart, Paris, Broken Promises

  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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• The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Long, Courtesy, Denied

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• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  Otto Schily

  Love, Religious, Peace

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• But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

  Pierre Laval

  Policy, Practise

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• Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

  Lloyd Alexander

  War, Paris, Wales

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• Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

  James F. Byrnes

  Allies, Assets, Made

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• It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

  Angela Merkel

  Growth, Unemployment, Facts

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Ideas, Forever, Movement

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• Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, People, My Family

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• Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

  Pierre Laval

  Country, Numbers, France

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• I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, War, Grew Up

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• I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.

  Hermann Goring

  Kings, Russia, Laughing

  Remark on May 28, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

  Harry Patch

  War, Fighting, Soldier

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• Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Stopping, Resistance, Revolution

  Ulrike Meinhof (2011). “Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof”, p.31, Seven Stories Press

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• If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

  Willy Brandt

  Understanding, Demand, Buying

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• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

  George Orwell

  War, Civilization, Cities

  1945 In the Observer, 8 Apr.

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• I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jul 11, 2013

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• Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, Tragedy, Opera

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• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Berlin, Firsts, Cologne

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Europe, France

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2005.

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• If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

  Simone Weil

  Past, Europe, Civilization

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Aunt, West Germany, East Germany

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• Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

  Klaus Fuchs

  War, Russia, Risk

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• I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

  Michael Fassbender

  Dad, Phones, Europe

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