Instinct Quote by Ehud Barak

“Germany’s emergence as a self-confident, non-aggressive, democratic power – not to speak of the humanitarian example it has set – is a pill too…

— John le Carré

“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 former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.”

— Paul Russell

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

— Thomas Friedman

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“German boys! Do you know the country without freedom, the country of terror and tyranny? Yes, you know it well, but are afraid to…

— Helmuth Hübener

“For countless Americans, Germany remains the ultimate metaphor of evil...”

— Deidre Berger

I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions…

— Wilhelm II

If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error…

— Adolf Hitler

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or…

— James F. Byrnes

“Germany’s siege mentality and gnawing sense of encirclement (the need to ‘storm out of the fortress’ to prevent a Russian attack); Austria-Hungary’s hatred of…

— Paul Ham

The former West Germany was a semi-sovereign political pygmy, protected by America's military might and with barely any foreign policy of its own. As…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes