Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 15)

"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck"

Carl Zuckmayer, Playwright

"Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front"

Wilhelm Keitel, Celebrity

"If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!"

Roland Freisler, Politician

"One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme"

Bernard Katz, Scientist

"It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before"

Walter Kaufmann, Philosopher

"The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

"I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed"

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Author

"Sweat saves blood"

Erwin Rommel, Soldier

"We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil"

Claus von Stauffenberg, Soldier

"I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face"

Thomas Kretschmann, Actor

"Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work"

John Kluge, Businessman

"Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again"

Ulrike Meinhof, Journalist

"I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it"

Lilli Palmer, Actress

"There is always room for coincidence"

Alva Noto, Artist

"Goodness means the highest degree of popularity"

Heinrich Mann, Novelist

"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard"

Ernst Lubitsch, Director

"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability"

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

"The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold"

Georg Hermes, Theologian

"On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity"

Manfred von Richthofen, Aviator

"The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out"

Alfred Jodl, Soldier

"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years"

Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Author

"Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?"

Max Muller, Educator

"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories"

Mary Wigman, Dancer

"All music has to speak in some form or other"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"Is an artist much more than a beggar?"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art"

Gustav Krupp, Businessman

"As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs"

Kurt Huber, Professor

"Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls"

Rudolf Otto, Theologian

"People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts"

Paul Hindemith, Musician

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Quotes by German authors