Germany Quotes - Page 12

• What you have as a result of past policies is that German entrepreneurs go outside of Germany for many of their activities. They are investing abroad instead of at home because there isn't the openness, fluidity and opportunity they find outside their borders.

  Milton Friedman

  Home, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations.

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Goal, Population

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries.

  Eric Kandel

  Country, Hands, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Real, Fall, Thinking

  "'The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past'". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical time now for Germany within Europe, also globally, economically ve are pretty good, ve have been better. But ve are very vibrant in the theater and arts...' and all the time you'll be listening to this, you're thinking Mmm, yeah, mmm... Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Art, Nice

  "Dylan Moran: Like, Totally". Video, December 2006.

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• Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when you worry about whether a well-meaning gesture could produce complications. We have no problems with countries like Madagascar or Bolivia, for example. But Germany is our neighbor and we have a shared past. Besides, Germany is powerful and ambitious and more than four times as large as we are. It makes complete sense that we would act cautiously. It's simply Realpolitik.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Country, Powerful, Past

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.

  Anne Waldman

  Reading, People, Holocaust

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested on one person's shoulders. Extraordinary people carried that country through its darkest hours; truly inspirational. I suppose that's my theme. Whether it's a biography or a movie; whether it's fictional or true, I'm inspired by people doing great things.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Country, People

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• Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Party, Europe, Law

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.

  Gabriel Ba

  Book, Careers, Brazil

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Two, Special, India

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.

  Werner Herzog

  Insane, Would Be, Euthanasia

  "Werner Herzog INTO THE ABYSS Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good for Russia? That is what he will do. If that's represented by a move toward the Baltic, that would be very dangerous, but he would do it, on the assumption that he would ask himself the question: I am prepared to fight for Estonia. Is the United States? Is Germany? Is Britain, France?

  Marvin Kalb

  Moving, Fighting, Russia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

  Peter King

  Reality, Europe, Nsa

  "Peter King: Obama should ‘stop apologizing’ for NSA". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and he said something that's absolutely true. And it's more important to repeat that today than it ever was. Not for you, but for us over there it is important. He said, 'In America they make movies like art, and sell it like commodities. We make make movies like commodities and sell them like art.'

  Christoph Waltz

  Art, Thinking, America

  Source: collider.com

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• If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians. For in these spheres the community of the people of National Socialist Germany has accomplished a prodigious work.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Mean, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Horse, War, Italian

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• In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Growth, Investment, Significant

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• Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

  Steve Forbes

  Mistake, Japan, World

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years...all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.

  John Adams

  Country, Real, Turkeys

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• Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Russia, Europe, France

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• I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Want, Bills, Clinton

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• O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Teaching, Mind

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• They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Understanding, Asking, Favors

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