Germans Quotes
218 Germans quotes by 177 unique authors
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Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
— Anna Funder
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American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is…
— Paul Scofield
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No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
— Charles de Gaulle
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In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about…
— Oliver Stone
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Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young…
— Marion G. Romney
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Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German…
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the…
— Chris Rock
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It…
— Unknown Author
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Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to…
— Unknown Author
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Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for…
— Unknown Author
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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
— Otto von Bismarck
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I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.
— Adolf Eichmann
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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
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One thing I've learned is this: Never allow yourself to hate a people because of the actions of a few. Hatred and bigotry destroyed my…
— Erich Hartmann
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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
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Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
— Drew Carey
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To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition…
— Michael Parenti
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A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.…
— Edward Gibbon
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I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they…
— Christopher Isherwood
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I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an…
— Gustav Mahler
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The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.
— Frederic Chopin
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What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting…
— Joseph Goebbels
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After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter…
— Tony Benn
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