100+ Germany Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Edwin Black (1984). “The transfer agreement: the untold story of the secret agreement between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine”, MacMillan Publishing Company

topic: Germany, Pay, Obligation

We left Germany when I was 11.

- Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

topic: Germany

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

- Emily Greene Balch

source: Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

topic: Japan, France, Germany, Austria

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

- Ernst Rohm

source: Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.

topic: Destiny, Germany, Nazism

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

- Ernst Zundel

topic: War, Government, Germany, Socialist Government, West Germany

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

- Evan Davis

topic: Keys, Germany, Labels, Volkswagens

Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

- Fatos Nano

topic: Europe, Switzerland, Germany, Albania

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

- Francois Mauriac

topic: Two, Germany, Glad

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

- Frank Carlucci

topic: War, Germany, World, World War I

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

- Franka Potente

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Book, Writing, Germany, Before And Now

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

- Franz Halder

source: Franz Halder, Charles Burton Burdick, Hans Adolf Jacobsen (1988). “The Halder war diary, 1939-1942”, Presidio Pr

topic: Military, Historical, Germany, Disintegration

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

- Franz Mehring

topic: Political, Mind, Germany, Free Thinkers, Precocious

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

- Franz von Papen

source: "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 2, p. 919, 1946.

topic: Fate, Names, Germany

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

- Frederick The Great

topic: Horse, Humorous, Germany

The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly provide the sharpest preventative measures against the continued attack-politics Germany undertook. Possibilities existed for this, but no measures were seized upon.

- Friedrich Kellner

source: Diary entry, May 29, 1940.

topic: Historical, Guilt, Germany

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

- Friedrich List

topic: Mother, Children, Germany, Fatherland, Crippled

In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orgaÂnismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general systems theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.

- Fritjof Capra

topic: Psychology, Intellectual, Germany, Fragmentation, Gestalt

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

- Fritz Sauckel

source: "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, (p. 566), 2002.

topic: Long, Dying, Germany, Protect My Family

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

- Georg Baselitz

source: Georg Baselitz, Norman Rosenthal (2007). “Baselitz”, Royal Academy of Art

topic: Germany

All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.

- George Foreman

topic: Dog, Shepherds, Germany, German Shepherds

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

- Gerhard Schroder

topic: Germany, Favors, Want

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

- Gerhard Schroder

topic: Germany, Trade, Free Trade

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

- Giulio Andreotti

topic: Two, Germany

While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.

- Gordon Cooper

topic: Flying, Pilots, Germany, Flying Saucers

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay

- Goronwy Rees

topic: Insulting, Delay, Germany

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

topic: Guy, Germany, Bars

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

- Graham Coxon

topic: Germany, Munich, Berlin

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

- Graham Taylor

topic: Sports, Community, Germany

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

topic: Skins, Germany, Campaigns, Thick Skin

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

- Gustav Heinemann

topic: Party, Government, Germany, Resigned

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

- Gustav Heinemann

topic: Germany, Difficult, Fatherland

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

topic: Ideas, Forever, Germany

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

- Gustav Stresemann

topic: Army, Class, Germany, Civil Servants, Versailles

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

- Gustav Stresemann

topic: Long, Germany, Courtesy

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

- Gustav Stresemann

topic: Volcanoes, Dancing, Germany, Short Term, Sections

Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

topic: Airplane, Qatar, Germany, Airbus

In Germany I am not so famous.

- Hans Berger

topic: Germany

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

- Hans Frank

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

topic: Clever, Leaving, Germany, Himmler

I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

- Harry E. Sloan

source: Source: www.thewrap.com

topic: America, Germany, Television, Penetration

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Winning, Russia, Germany

Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.

- Heinrich Himmler

topic: Europe, Germany, Borders

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

- Helmut Kohl

topic: Germany, Restless, Should

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

- Helmut Kohl

topic: Russia, Important, Germany

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.

- Henning von Tresckow

topic: Germany, World, Shows

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

- Hjalmar Schacht

source: "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" by the International Military Tribunal, Vol. 5, (p. 134), 1947.

topic: Germany, Negotiation, Colony

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time

- Hjalmar Schacht

source: "The Trial of the Germans : An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 235), 1997.

topic: Germany, Realizing, Influence

Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

- Idi Amin

topic: People, Germany, Alive

Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them.

- Jacob Appelbaum

topic: Knowing, People, Germany, Information Is Power

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

- James Boswell

topic: Home, Switzerland, Germany

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: War, Germany, Cost

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

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Allies, Germany, Assets

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Long, People, Germany

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

- James F. Byrnes

topic: Essentials, Germany, Levels

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

- James Mark Baldwin

source: James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”

topic: Illumination, Two, Germany, Half A Century

Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.

- Janusz Korwin-Mikke

source: tvn24.pl, July 05, 2008.

topic: Self, Germany, Defense, Poland

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

- Jeff Koons

topic: Germany, Artwork, Produce

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

- Jerry Brown

topic: Waiting, Germany, Boundaries

The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock.

- Jim Keith

source: Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.12, Adventures Unlimited Press

topic: Eugenics, Majority, Germany, Nordic, 19th Century

Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

- Jimmy Doolittle

topic: Flying, Germany, May, Flying Saucers

I was a National-Socialist and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.

- Joachim Peiper

topic: Europe, Germany, Today

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

- Joachim von Ribbentrop

source: "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, (p. 562), 2002.

topic: Understanding, Wish, Germany, East And West

Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged to her; because Britain was afraid of Germany getting too strong.

- Joachim von Ribbentrop

topic: Strong, War, Germany

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

- Joe Cocker

topic: Wall, Germany

It's financially advantageous to make a picture in Berlin, Germany. They have a very effective rebate system.

- Joel Silver

source: "Producer Joel Silver Exclusive Interview: Discusses Unknown, Logan’s Run, Berlin, Vod, Home Video Sales, 3d, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 17, 2011.

topic: Germany, Berlin

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

- John Helm

topic: Soccer, Past, Germany, West Germany

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

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

topic: Fighting, Germany, Would Be

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

- Jonah Hill

topic: Germany, Three, World

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

- Joschka Fischer

topic: Germany, Speak, Genocide, White Genocide

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

- Jose Rizal

topic: Independence, Spain, Germany

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

- Joseph Stalin

topic: People, Germany, Comes And Goes

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.

- Juan Manuel Fangio

topic: Wife, Germany, Want

In opening China, the English have secured their presence in East Asia. If we don't commit more resources to get into Southeast Asia now, they or Germany, or even little Belgium might find it ripe for the taking.

- Jules Ferry

topic: Germany, East, Littles, Belgium, Southeast Asia

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Mind, Germany

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

- Karl Liebknecht

topic: Teeth, Germany, Tongue

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

- Katarina Witt

topic: Athlete, Germany, East, East Germany

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

source: 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 ...”

topic: Broken Heart, Paris, Germany, Belgium, Belgians

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

- Kelly Miller

topic: Fall, Germany, Strange

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

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

topic: Insane, Germany, Bismarck, Insane Asylum

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

- Kim Dae-jung

topic: Korea, Germany, East, South Korea, East Germany

I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. And throughout my 20s, I always had fast cars, and I always went to the maximum. Like, my average cruising speed was 250 km/hr.