The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't… — Donna Summer Copy Share Image
Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways,… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“My biggest fear is that Germans will suddenly be relaxed and in a good mood. We need our unfriendliness. We need our… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
“And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted… — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“I was glad to be made aware that “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair), is subject to natural law, and can be made… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans… — Hasso Plattner Copy Share Image
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Marvelous, isn’t it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they’re fucking dead.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The future will belong to the Germans... ...when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians -… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“But most- and worst- of all, as we and all the world slowly learned about the full extent of Hitler's Final Solution,… — Irmgard A. Hunt Copy Share Image
The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I felt like the Germans were being mean to me at training, but they were actually just trying to help. I learned… — Ali Krieger Copy Share Image
By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners… — Erich Ludendorff Copy Share Image
The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
“Look,’ he said, ‘they are just Germans who had Communism for forty years and went backwards, and all they want now is… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image