German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German… — Adolf Hitler
I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind. — George S. Patton
There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music. — H. L. Mencken
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. — Mark Twain
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not… — George Bernard Shaw
The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have… — Ludwig von Mises
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science,… — Adolf Hitler
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and… — Albert Einstein
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory… — Arthur Keith
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what persists… — Elie Wiesel
You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be… — Winston Churchill
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. — Unknown Author
The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a… — J F C Fuller
Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. — Jacob Grimm
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

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