Germany Quotes - Page 18

• The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

  Amartya Sen

  Australia, People, India

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

  James Toback

  Nice, Awards, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Country, Strong, Hate

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours.

  Kemp Muhl

  Play, Guy, Waiting

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.

  David Maraniss

  Cocky, Japan, Car

  "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony.

  Christine Jennings

  Moving, Southern, Village

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are differences of opinion, especially when it comes to economic and financial policy. But when it comes to foreign and especially immigration policy, we are in agreement. No other countries in Europe are closer to each other in this regard than Italy and Germany.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Agreement, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• But joint pressure from states like Germany, Italy and France could mean a move in this direction. Because something very fundamental is on the line: freedom of movement. I can't think of any common market that could function without it.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for us. That needs to change: More investments, a stronger role by the European Central Bank. Otherwise, there are no tensions between Italy and Germany. But on this point, compromises must be reached and we will reach them.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Views, Growth, Stronger

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What King Abdullah of Jordan said is essentially the war against ISIS is a war for the soul of Islam. And it must be Muslim troops on the ground that will destroy ISIS, with the support of a coalition of major powers - U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Russia.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kings, War, Russia

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion and the ruler of the province or the region was Lutheran, to stay a Catholic, you either had to be a dissenter or you had to leave.

  Susan Jacoby

  Catholic, Regions, Reformation

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.

  Susan Jacoby

  People, Catholic, Today

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde. His early reading of Platen's poetry, and, probably when he was in his early twenties, of Platen's diaries, introduced him to a form of sexual expression he found profoundly congenial. It's not quite Platonic.

  Philip Kitcher

  Sex, Reading, Fate

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany is desperate. It must maintain its standard of living. It can only do that with exports and Deutsche Bank is very exposed to Italian debt. But so is the rest of Europe.

  George Friedman

  Italian, Europe, Banking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Germany is the new pig. Germany depends on exports and its markets are drying up. When the Germans start getting 10% unemployment, 15% unemployment, which is the real variable, how are they going to handle it?

  George Friedman

  Real, Pigs, Unemployment

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's worked with Austria's banking system. There's all sorts of interplays there. So it's not the PIIGS one should worry about. Germany hasn't even begun falling yet. And when Germany falls, and it will, that's when the panic begins to set in.

  George Friedman

  Fall, Europe, Worry

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When you have the countries like Germany, China, and Russia decline, and be replaced by others, that's when systemic wars start. That's when it gets dangerous, because they haven't yet reached a balance. So Germany united in 1871 and all hell broke loose. Japan rose in the early 20th century, and then you had chaos. So we're looking at a systemic shift. Be ready for war.

  George Friedman

  Country, War, Japan

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When I look around the world and see so many countries turning people away, I think it is terrible. And I know that these are all issues that Germany is culturally dealing with in terms of integration but it is just something that I deeply admire.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Country, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate in all those countries. This is good news because it means, regardless of your cultural background or where your company is based, it can become innovative.

  David Livermore

  Country, Mean, India

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules was that you'd have to have tangible evidence, and documentary evidence was not sufficient.

  Marvin Hier

  War, Law, Criminals

  "The Last Of Nazi War Convictions Will Not End Fight Against Anti-Semitism". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

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• I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany." They say, "I'm going to Europe."

  Ayshay

  Teaching, School, Europe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to be back in France and Germany, and I want people to enjoy these books for the writing and not because they feel they can laugh - some will laugh - at these eccentric places, that's not what I intend.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.

  Charles R. Morris

  Country, Here And There, Boards

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China and I go worship there I will understand and I'll be willing to give up a lot of my culture because I'm in somebody else's homeland. So I'm going to have to act German or Chinese, whatever that might mean.

  Michael Emerson

  Giving Up, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.

  Nell Irvin Painter

  Ideas, White, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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