German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape. — Fritz Todt
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother… — Ernst Toller
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and… — Walter Ulbricht
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to… — Walter Ulbricht
But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father… — Tobias Wolff
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people… — Daniel Pinchbeck
The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second… — Julius Streicher
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating… — Nicolaas Bloembergen
Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?) — Alan Coren
All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful… — Winston Churchill
There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That… — Walter Ulbricht
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all… — J D Salinger
The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories. — Adolf Galland
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war… — Adolf Galland
What I could never escape was Germany, and being German. — Georg Baselitz
The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. — George S. Patton
Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we… — Anne Frank
The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model,… — Wolfgang Schauble
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… — Wolfgang Schauble
As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half… — Wolfgang Schauble
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute… — Frantz Fanon
The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral… — Clive James

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