Danger Quote by Eric Metaxas

“The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that…

— Eric Metaxas

“My biggest fear is that Germans will suddenly be relaxed and in a good mood. We need our unfriendliness. We need our bad moods.…

— Diana Mauer

“that? Masculinity is and was a broad category that encompassed many forms of behaviour; the manliness of these particular men was inflected by identities…

— Christopher Munro Clark

“Security, the dignity we loved, were nowhere. So ugliness boiled up within us and resentment at the outer world which we were told was…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“What a tricky balance of safety and risk it is that brings out the best in us?”

— Kaya McLaren

“Sometimes, the greatest safety can be found in taking the right risk. Whether it be an individual, a community or a country, when faced…

— Michael Meade

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

— Deidre Berger

“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his…

— Michael Chabon

“With his contrasting vision of anxious, work-obsessed, overly disciplined Italians and happy-go-lucky, carefree Germans,”

— Stephen Greenblatt

“A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception…

— Timothy Snyder

“Germans longed to be near shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the…

— Michael Lewis

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

— Paul Russell