German Quotes

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I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these… — Georg Baselitz
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him ! — Jonathan Swift
I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing… — Unknown Author
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to… — Albert Einstein
Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups… — Ian Kershaw
Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he… — Ian Kershaw
The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness caused by Marxism - and… — Unknown Author
Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective… — Hermann Goring
The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence… — Adolf Hitler
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the… — Bertrand Russell
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants;… — Robert Graves
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an… — George Bernard Shaw
The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian,… — David Lloyd George
Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took… — Unknown Author
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly… — Friedrich Nietzsche
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than the… — Peter Hilton
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization. — Kingsley Amis
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine… — Arthur Rubinstein
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. — Karl Marx
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. — Ludwig von Mises

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