But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.

I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

My worry is that Donald Trump may inspire copycats, also in Europe. That's why I hope Hillary Clinton wins.

Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

We believe that Almighty God has sent us Adolf Hitler so that he may rid Germany of the hypocrites and Pharisees.

A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that [Adolf] Hitler has a gift of touching the important points, the essential points.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

If we no longer judge the content of people's actions, but merely their form, then we are entering dangerous times indeed.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

People who work hard for their money cannot be placed in a worse position that those who allow their money to work for them.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

Having a place to live is a fundamental right and the state must establish a framework that ensures that apartments are affordable.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

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