Top 1200 German History Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.

There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

We all know that history cannot be undone. But let me assure you that we Austrians know that, because of our history, we have a great responsibility.

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

We have a professional relationship [with Chancellor Angela Merkel].2016 is the year of the German-Russian youth exchange, so the relations are moving on.

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

If you are in Holland, be careful not to say tomorrow that you don't like French, German or Swedish food or people, you could be called a racist.

That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.

The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity - I admire wise men. Some of my favorite forms of history are religious history, what the sages say from the top of the mountain and how they view life.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

The President of the United States has a much wider power than the German Kaiser had, for he depended on parliament.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in politics, in economics, in industry, in science, in philosophy, in culture.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

Let's face it: there aren't a lot of black superheroes. So, in dealing with a black superhero, you're going to deal with ugly history and the beauty of history.

Pep Guardiola had some great clashes with Klopp in German football. They know each other well.

The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.

He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

Whenever I hear people utter anti-German sentiments, I say: You can't blame Germany for defending its own interests.

I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian casualties, is more probably than any in the history of the world, especially when you consider the history of warfare.

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

People who are trans don't owe you their entire history right out the gate, just like you wouldn't walk up to someone and tell them your medical history. You build trust.

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.