#german

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. ↗

— King Charles V

#german #god #horse #i #italian

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know how to operate a hammer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#church #germany #hammer #lutheran #martin-luther

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#because #began #found #germany #i

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#came #curtain #dark #field #flat

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#different #german #i #know #me

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#assassination #consider #continue #directed #does

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#broke #german #hitler #hysterical #into

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. ↗

— Bette Midler

#every #every night #german #i #invades

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#germany #natives #same #title

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german