A Quote by Daniel Barenboim

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

Daniel Barenboim

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Germans Past Prisoners

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Daniel Barenboim
Argentinian - Musician
Born: November 15, 1942

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

John Berger

German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.

Donna Summer

We're not prisoners of the past.

Martin Seligman

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.

Julian Assange

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Rick Warren

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

Barack Obama

Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism.

Luke Harding

These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than one per cent of the adult population, seven times the incarceration rate of Canada or any Western European country.

Peter Moskos

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Ivan Illich

That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.

Israel Shahak

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

Tony Judt

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

Primo Levi

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

Mario Monti

I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.