Famous Quotes - Tags - Germany And The Germans

  • (Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been... More
  • A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. More
  • All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I... More
  • As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that... More
  • Don’t mention the war. More
  • Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich. More
  • Everything ponderous, viscous, and solemnly clumsy, all long- winded and boring types of style... More
  • German Flyer: Rotterdam, we destroy in two hours.
    Mrs. Miniver: There were thousands killed.... More
  • German radicalism: freedom-masturbation. More
  • German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good... More
  • Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice... More
  • Germany is a queer country: one can’t regard it dispassionately. I alternate between hating it... More
  • Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise. More
  • Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all. More
  • Germany, the Imperial Republic More
  • Have you never heard of German Becoming, of German Wandering, of the endless migratings of the... More
  • He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about... More
  • How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our... More
  • How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, dressing gown—how much beer there is in the... More
  • I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an... More
  • I for my sins am going to an afternoon representation of Othello by a German tragedian of some... More
  • I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them... More
  • I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them. More
  • In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion:... More
  • In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist’s sense is foreign there. More
  • In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries. More
  • It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all. More
  • It’s like the Beatles coming together again—let’s hope they don’t go on a world tour. More
  • It’s the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true... More
  • Our Germany’s dead. However hard this may be for some of us older people, it’s a blessing for... More
  • Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into... More
  • So far no actual revolutionary masses have come into view. This might be considered sufficient... More
  • Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is... More
  • That’s how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants... More
  • The German language “speaks Being,” while all the others merely “speak of Being.” More
  • The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively... More
  • The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the... More
  • The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn’t believe it gets one in the neck. More
  • The Germans are always too late. They are late, like music, which is always the last of the arts... More
  • The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however,... More
  • The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays... More
  • The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face. More
  • The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They... More
  • They came, they saw, they did a little shopping. More
  • Unhappy German nation, how do you like the Messianic rôle allotted to you, not by God, nor by... More
  • Wagner’s art is the most sensational self-portrayal and self- critique of German nature that it... More
  • West Germans are tall, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as... More
  • When they are not at war they do a little hunting, but spend most of their time in idleness,... More
  • Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him... More
  • With Nietzsche, the black pirates’ flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German... More
  • you in San Quentin,
    who wrote, “Being German my hero is Hitler,”
    instead of... More
  • “German spirit”: for the past eighteen years a contradictio in adjecto. More

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