Past Quote by Daniel Barenboim Download Open image “The Germans are prisoners of their past.” — Daniel Barenboim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Past Prisoner Time
After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“From the start the proportion of asocials in the camp was about one-third of the total population, and throughout the first years prostitutes, homeless… — Sarah Helm Copy Share Image
We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
“The Germans are not a race of psychopaths, Alma. They’re normal people like you and me, but with fanaticism, power, and impunity, anyone can… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front. — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
“When the Germans surrendered with their arms raised high, holding a white flag, they weren't at all how i imagined them: hard, cruel, tall… — Mariko Nagai Copy Share Image
German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember… — Donna Summer Copy Share Image
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share
In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides.… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share
European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share
I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt… — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
Right before the pandemic, 'Past Lives' came across to me as something to read and possibly put myself on tape for. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share
