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Quotes by German Authors
"Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers."
"We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea."
"I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty."
"Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss."
"Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster."
"At the centre of all these noble races we cannot fail to see the blond beast of prey, the magnificent blond beast avidly prowling round for spoil and victory; this hidden centre needs release from time to time, the beast must out again, must return to the wild: - Roman, Arabian, Germanic, Japanese nobility, Homeric heroes, Scandinavian Vikings - in this requirement they are all alike. It was the noble races which left the concept of 'barbarian' in their traces wherever they went; even their highest culture betrays the fact that they were conscious of this and indeed proud of it."
"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."
"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction."
"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't."
"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."
"The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I."
"But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery."
"It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are."
"For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta."
"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
"I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too."
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
"We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops."
"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."
"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."
"You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause."
"We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework."
"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."
"It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence."
"The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group."
"Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?"
"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was."
"To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last."
"The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions."
"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."
"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."
"We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers."
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