Top 491 Germans Quotes & Sayings

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

Germans make nice cars.

There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done.

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

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

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again--and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth. And the fact is I am not prepared to do that.

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

Poles did not like Jews and they were worse than Germans.

Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.

I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course of political consultations on the unification of East and West Germany... some nations that were then and are now Germany's allies did not support the idea of unification. Our nation, however, unequivocally supported the sincere, unstoppable desire of the Germans for national unity. I am confident that you have not forgotten this, and I expect that the citizens of Germany will also support the aspiration of the Russians, of historical Russia, to restore unity.

Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.

I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.

The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans.

It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started to hate the Germans - as we began to move alphabetically through the map of the world. Now, the year 2000, we are fine with the Germans... but the Hungarians are pissing us off.

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

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

The full veil is not appropriate for Germans, and should be banned wherever legally possible.

God, I hate the Germans.

The Germans, a race eager for war.

There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

Remember not all Germans were Nazis.

I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn't kill more.

I should be very sorry if the Germans disapproved of me.

You know the Germans always make good stuff.

Beating the Germans for the first time in our history was massive.

If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

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

Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves.

Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder we push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.

Just like at Hirojima, when Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans!

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

Frenchman: Germans with good food.

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

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.

I don't think America needs 28,000 men on Okinawa. I don't think we need an army in Germany. What's it for, to protect Germans against the Russians, to protect the French against the Germans? It's just there by inertia, that's my reading of it. I don't think we need an army in South Korea because North Korea is absolutely no threat to South Korea.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

The Germans must be together.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.