Richard Overy famous quotes

It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts of other capitalist states. While few would disagree that the Nazi regime had a number of clear ideological preferences when it came to the economy, the policies pursued in 1933 had much in common with those adopted in other countries, and with the policies of the pre-Hitler governments.
-- Richard Overy

#Country #Recovery #Government

Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.
-- Richard Overy

#Too Much #Social #Tolerate

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.
-- Richard Overy

#Men #Goering #All Things

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.
-- Richard Overy

#Past #Ideas #Desire

Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.
-- Richard Overy

#Notebook #Political #Goering

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.
-- Richard Overy

#Character #Goering #Contradictory

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.
-- Richard Overy

#Hunting #Fur #Togas

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
-- Richard Overy

#Routine Work #Goering #Argument

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.

It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.