Juergen Teller Quotes

I'm ashamed to be German.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

For those things which were done either by our fathers or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, I can scarcely call our own.

An affection for Hong Kong and a national identity are not mutually exclusive. We can let children learn more about Hong Kong's history, culture, politics, and social development, and at the same time, we must make them have their national identity.

The German people of today bear no guilt. Why are the German people not permitted the right to defend themselves? Why are the crimes of one group emphasized so greatly, instead of highlighting the great German cultural heritage? Why should the Germans not have the right to express their opinion freely?

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

I feel non-stop Brit shame!

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

Museums, I love museums.

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.

This is the country that lives in us .... There it must find its nutriment or die.

Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

A lot of people may not read the history of their own country, but they carry on memories transmitted by previous generations. They're trying to achieve something, [they] have their mission and anger -- all this is fed by past experience of history.

Happy is the nation without a history.

If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we must earnestly tackle this question and bring our educational policy and program on the lines suited to the genius of our people, consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and vast developments that have taken place all over the world. .