Germany Quotes - Page 14

• I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Would Be, Asylums, Deportation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Russia, Mutual Attraction

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling that they need to make everything in the cityscape look nice and pretty as quickly as possible. That was particularly apparent in the former East Germany after reunification. Then cities sometimes get a bit too neat and tidy.

  Charles Landry

  Nice, East Germany, Neat And Tidy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.

  Hans von Storch

  Wind, Firsts, Computer

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was a great friend of the Europeans. I grew up in Wiesbaden. I love Germany very much.

  Tyler Drumheller

  Great Friend, Grew Up, Grew

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down.

  Bassam Tibi

  Racism, Islam, Weapons

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.

  Bassam Tibi

  Children, Taken, Islamic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.

  Bassam Tibi

  People, Identity, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Europe, Risk, Causes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for imams to be trained in Germany and to speak our language, just as the Roman Catholic Church now holds mass in German and gave up Latin long ago.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Religious, Latin, Long Ago

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Mexico, Filmmaker, Sweepers

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• The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.

  George W. Bush

  Goal, Democracy, Working Together

  Interview with Kai Diekmann, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 7, 2006.

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• Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Thinking, Detours

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Partners like the United States and Germany must always discuss all issues, including these questions. I welcome the fact that a discussion over legitimate methods of questioning and interrogation is taking place in both Germany and the United States.

  Angela Merkel

  Issues, Facts, United States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I want us to be able to preserve our level of prosperity. We must constantly remind ourselves that Germany has been eating into its capital. It is only through successful management that we can once again secure our foundation of prosperity and social security.

  Angela Merkel

  Successful, Levels, Want

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• We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.

  Angela Merkel

  Children, Hands, Gaps

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• The question is: Would there be a market in Germany for certain types of employment if one were to allow the employed person to earn less than is necessary to maintain his standard of living?

  Angela Merkel

  Employment, Type, Standards

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• We cannot allow employers in Germany to pay hourly wages of 50 cents and shift the remainder of the burden to the taxpayer. After all, we want to create jobs, not open a self-service shop for resourceful employers.

  Angela Merkel

  Jobs, Self, Wages

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• Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

  Peter Eisenman

  Moments, Overboard, Terrible

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.

  Edgar Hilsenrath

  People, Want, Jew

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• Once the impact of climate change becomes visible, politics will react quickly and forcefully. We saw that in Germany in 2002 during the floods on the Elbe River. They, in fact, determined the result of the (general) elections (later that same year).

  Hermann E. Ott

  Impact, Years, Rivers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Turks who live here in Germany don't get their information from German media. They read Turkish newspapers and watch Turkish television. A sort of parallel media world has developed in Germany, especially as a result of technological advances like satellite TV and the internet.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Media, Watches, Television

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty Years' War. If you don't make the connection between memories of past atrocities and the present, there isn't any point to it. There are plenty of horrible things happening today in Germany and in the rest of the world.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Memories, War, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm talking about France and Germany and Italy and Spain - new friend Germany - and I love that story, how they lead the world in some things that the world needs leadership in. Amongst them we're the only ones without national healthcare. Can't go to a hospital and not worry about falling into bankruptcy. They go to university free. We're killing our students with debt. That scares me.

  Tavis Smiley

  Fall, Talking, Worry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

  Malcolm X

  Six, Christianity, Jew

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.394, Ballantine Books

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