German Culture Quotes

Those [German immigrants] who come hither are generally the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own nation …. They will soon so out-number us … that we will not be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Germans are not tainted by intermarriage with any other nations.

I've been over to Germany, it is nice to box.

I like Germany so much that I want there to be two of them.

I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

The pressure in Hollywood is bigger to look good than in Germany. In Germany, we are more forgiving. Having a personal coach in Germany is not nearly as common as in Hollywood. In Hollywood, I think everyone has a personal trainer.

I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see that collapse in German culture. There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.

Everything German that stands for disorder and destruction is gathered together in the Bavarian capital. All that is reactionary is concentrated there.

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

I did a few TV shows in Germany, lots of media.

I'm into all things German. Everything that I own is German. As far as cars go, anyway.

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud.

I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.