Gertrude Stein Quotes

I ask myself where Germany stands today and where it wants to go.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

I believe in benevolent dictatorships, provided I am the dictator.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

And further, I tell you that the Jew is right, when he acts as he does - because we are too timid to be as German as the Jew is Jewish! ... It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Remember not all Germans were Nazis.

If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel.

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

President Ronald Reagan on his 1980 opponent: "I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job. I want to be President."

Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.

I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".

How much beer is in German intelligence?

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America.

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!