Germany Quotes - Page 6

• One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Keys

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”

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• The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is not an exclusively British institution. Read descriptions, for instance, of the over-organized, wonderfully systematic and "thorough" German war machine during the last war.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Humorous

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• I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Culture, Tvs, Film

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• Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

  Paul Crouch

  Journey, Los Angeles, Made

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• I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Firsts, Heard

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• The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart

  Party, Austria, Pumpkin

  Speech in Berlin on April 07, 1938. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, 1966.

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• The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

  David Clennon

  Country, Class, Climate

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• The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

  Method Man

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• In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

  Kelly Miller

  Insane, Bismarck, Asylums

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”

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• I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Found

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• Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

  Douglas Hurd

  War, Iraq, Britain

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• ...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Fighting, Enemy, Would Be

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• Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Russia, Forgiving, France

  Washington Post, April 13, 2003.

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• A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

  Frederick The Great

  Funny, Horse, Humorous

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• America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

  Peter Hook

  America, Vinyl, Imports

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• My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Nice, Believe, Home

  Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.

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• The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  "The Ascent of Man" (Episode 11: "Knowledge or Certainty"), 1973.

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• The United States of America has helped underwrite the global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans.

  Barack Obama

  Sacrifice, Men, Blood

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

  James F. Byrnes

  War, Recovery, Europe

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• The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.

  Markus Wolf

  Powerful, Heart, Europe

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• Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.

  Roland Merullo

  Country, Children, Home

  Roland Merullo (2009). “A Little Love Story: A Novel”, p.96, Vintage

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• My warning is: Be careful Angela Merkel. If you don't see the suffering that has been imposed on the rest of the European people, then Germany will make itself hated.

  Marine Le Pen

  People, Suffering, Warning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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