Ancient history Quote by Charles Krauthammer

You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.”

— Sam Kean

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Like most people, I acquired my initial sense of the era from books and photographs that left me with the impression that the world…

— Erik Larson

“Germany represented the future because it carried no colonial ballast,”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart... The…

— W. G. Sebald

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the…

— Adolf Hitler

“If we were all blinded to the larger implications of the events that were sweeping upon us it was not entirely due to the…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen.”

— Anita Loos

“The world, however, is indebted to Germany in a terrifying way, because she demonstrated to everyone what the ultimate conclusions of negative and destructive…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“The Nazi leaders cannot be voided from human society simply because it is pleasanter or more convenient to regard them now as outside the…

— Roger Manvell