Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 14)

"For the will and not the gift makes the giver"

"Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader"

"Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"Germany has been born anew"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self"

Max Stirner, Philosopher

"Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"I prefer to see with closed eyes"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Wherever the fish are, that's where we go"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Actors, after all, dream"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"I wish I could score everything for horns"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"So this is it. Match point for eternity"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development"

Johann Most, Revolutionary