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Quotes by German Authors
"In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized."
"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
"Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales."
"Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body."
"I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work."
"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."
"The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually."
"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."
"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally."
"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."
"If you know the why, you can live any how."
"In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings."
"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."
"The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices."
"I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier."
"Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement."
"One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry."
"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
"It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the order of efficient causes we assume ourselves free, in order that in the order of ends we may conceive ourselves as subject to these laws because we have attributed to ourselves freedom of will; for freedom and self-legislation of will are both autonomy..."
"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
"German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!"
"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."
"The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father."
"The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary."
"The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes."
"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class."
"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."
"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."
"My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own."
"Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people."
"As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views."
"With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed."
"Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation."
"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."
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