German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. — Alfred Rosenberg
A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a… — Johannes Rau
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are… — Gustav Stresemann
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy. — Gustav Stresemann
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which… — Gustav Stresemann
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning. — Walter Ulbricht
I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old… — Lisel Mueller
He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German. — Argus Hamilton
The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but because MoMA asked… — Gerhard Richter
A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse. — Frederick The Great
The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is… — George Mikes
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced… — Tibor Fischer
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their… — Hermann Goring
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the… — Terry Eagleton
I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back… — James F. Byrnes
Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering… — James F. Byrnes
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a… — James F. Byrnes
The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to… — James F. Byrnes
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… — James F. Byrnes
The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not… — James F. Byrnes
In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were… — Wim Wenders
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to… — Arthur Keith
When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though… — Edward Carpenter
I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a… — Vince Cable

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