Germany Quotes - Page 28

• When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Men, Two

  "Triumph of the Will". Documentary, History, War, 1935.

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• Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offsensive, Germany lost the air war. I made that decision and it was my most important decision during World War II. As you can imagine, the bomber crews were upset. The fighter pilots were ecstatic.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Military, War, Air

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• Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

  Airplane, Qatar, Airbus

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• Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

  Adolf Hitler

  War, World, World War 2

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• The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, War, Tired

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• Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Dream, Father, War

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• We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

  David Lloyd George

  Fighting, Alcohol, Three

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• Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be called drinking, being so thirsty and hell-like that no guzzling of wine and beer, however large, will cool it off, and I fear that such will ever remain Germany's plague, until the day of judgment.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Drinking, Wine

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• Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, World, Diseased

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Humorous, Animal

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.165, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Thinking, Doe

  Adolf Hitler (1933). “The new Germany desires work and peace: speeches”

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• Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, America, Russia

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.143, Penguin

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• ...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet now that it is here, one suspects that Hitler never could have consolidated his totalitarian control over Germany without its use. One never can tell what hands will reach out to lay hold on scientific gifts, or to what employment they will be put. Ever the old barbarian emerges, destructively using the new civilization.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Science, Hands, Civilization

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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• By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Men, Today

  "Einstein On His Theory". The Times (London), November 28, 1919.

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• But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Running, Mean, Decision

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• Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, America, Religion

  "Toss (some of 'em) to the lions". The Tuscaloosa News, September 15, 1993.

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• Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

  Will Durant

  Drinking, England, Cold

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1957). “The Story of Civilization: The Reformation”

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• It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.

  Tony Bennett

  Country, Gun, World

  "Tony Bennett: Without Gun Control, U.S. May Turn Into Nazi Germany". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2013.

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• The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.

  Arthur Keith

  Practice, Theory Of Evolution, Conform

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• If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

  Edouard Daladier

  Military, War, Fighting

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• What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.

  Justus von Liebig

  Eye, Science, Men

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• Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

  Steve Lomas

  Funny, Soccer, Team

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• I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.

  Gertrude Stein

  Struggle, Mean, Elements

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• The idea is that Jodie Foster is with her child and she's going back to New York from Germany with her husband's body. She loses her child on a plane, and you think, 'How can that happen?' There's no record of her having brought a child onto the plane, and the captain is left wondering about whether she's telling the truth. You never really know if she's telling the truth or not.

  Sean Bean

  New York, Children, Husband

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• There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]

  Tom Brokaw

  Military, Heart, Airplane

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