Quotes About History

Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life.

Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious.

We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations.

Beating the Germans for the first time in our history was massive.

You know, I grew up in the East part of Germany so we never had English in school, we had to learn Russian.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

Sure, I acted in films in the Third Reich, entertainment films, which distracted countless people inside and outside Germany from daily life during war.

We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.

A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'

I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.

We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive - 35,000 people.

My dad was a freedom fighter in Denmark against the occupational forces - the S.S. and the Gestapo and all that.

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'

I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, 'I can't believe that gay and lesbian people had to fight to be able to get married.'

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.

I think it's awesome that we're 50 years into the US Open being the US Open. It hasn't always been here. It's growing every year. Getting better every single year I come here.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.