Germany Quotes - Page 8

• If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one.

  Klaus Barbie

  Thinking, Hands, Barbie

  "Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons". Book by by Tom Bower, p. 23, 1984.

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• I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

  Austen Chamberlain

  War, Years, Looks

  "The Life and Letters of Sir Austen Chamberlain: Vol. II" by Sir Charles Petrie, Cassell, (p. 263), 1940.

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• In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.

  John Mearsheimer

  Fighting, Rivals, Littles

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  War, Fighting, Turkeys

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• Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

  Adolf Hitler

  Russia, Fields, Threat

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• We havent done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the 90s, but they failed.

  Til Schweiger

  Done, Action, Action Movie

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• Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it.  The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Numbers, Rose

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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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• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

  Albert Einstein

  Future, Winter, Science

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• Death is a master from Germany.

  Paul Celan

  Masters

  "Death Fugue" (1952)

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• The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Pigs, Iran, Iraq

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Long live eternal Germany!

  Wilhelm Frick

  Long, Eternal

  Last words; quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" - Page 565 - by Jon E. Lewis, 2002, October 16, 1946.

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• Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.

  Hans Frank

  Clever, Leaving, Caught

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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