#germans

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#choosing #direction #funny #funny people #germans

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

#christian #christians #german #germans #jew

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! ↗

— John Belushi

#decide #germans #harbor #hell #nothing

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#allowed #children #defenders #family #germans

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#champions #cup #date #event #germans

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends. ↗

— James Laughlin

#concentration #fiends #germans #good #group

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#articulated #build #consent #defy #europe

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ambition #among #aphorism #book #does

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#defended #done #duty #each #france

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

— Angela Merkel

#germans #nonsense #say #unable