German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will… — Erich Ludendorff
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards… — Winston Churchill
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high… — Fritz Sauckel
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,… — Winston Churchill
From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated… — Winston Churchill
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally… — Unknown Author
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go… — Adrienne Rich
Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil!… — Ilya Ehrenburg
Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old… — Ilya Ehrenburg
An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are… — George Augustus Henry Sala
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish… — Friedrich Engels
One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average… — Noam Chomsky
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when… — Fredrik Bajer
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed… — Clement Attlee
There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America. — Chaim Weizmann
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery
The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay — Unknown Author
How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys… — Issey Miyake
For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same… — Bertrand Russell
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time. — Tory Burch
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. — Elliott Carter
The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier. — Erwin Rommel
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men… — Heinrich Himmler
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very… — Rudolf Hess

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