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We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit...

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Thomas MannBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

For a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature."A gift of life," I responded, "if not to...

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And then came a damp, cold night in Flanders, through which we marched in silence, and when the day ...

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Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and th...

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Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to ...

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You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative an...

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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

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Christopher HitchensFor the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness...

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My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate al...

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Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popu...

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If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements...

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Friedrich NietzscheThe Anti-Christ/Ecce Homo/Twilight of the Idols/Other Writings

And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by ...

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Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future.

There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is underst...

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Jerome K. JeromeThree Men on the Bummel

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, an...

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But neither will anyone ask us whether we will it or do not will it when the spiritual strength of t...

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Martin HeideggerThe Self-Assertion of the German University

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the H...

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We Germans will never produce another Goethe but we may produce another Caesar.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Let us put Germany so to speak in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us ov...

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