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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

— Ferdinand Lassalle

“More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible…

— Krista Tippett

“Berlin stressed the farsightedness of his perception of the destructive power of ideological abstractions over human lives: “Herzen’s sense of reality, in particular of…

— Aileen M. Kelly

“We, who teach the Word purely with great zeal and diligence, and seek nothing else than the welfare of Germany, are bearing the bitterest…

— Martin Luther

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

— Anita Loos

“Within an hour Groves’s teletype rattled out a translation. My fellow Germans! I live! Yet another of the countless atrocities that have befallen our…

— Gregory Benford

Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.

— Edward Burtynsky

“What a sight! This infinitely proceeding division of society into the most manifold races opposed to one another by petty antipathies, uneasy consciences and…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Deidre Berger

“There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the…

— Iain M. Banks

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

— Paul Russell

“At the time of my matriculation at Berlin political issues were in an uproar. One professor after another was attacking the Republic for its…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor