Top 22 Klemperer Quotes
#1. I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
Werner Klemperer
#2. Frieda, you despise English music. You know you do. And English art. And English literature, except Shakespeare, and he's a German.
E. M. Forster
#3. In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power.
Victor Klemperer
#4. Newspapers are read differently now [ ... ] Between the lines.
Victor Klemperer
#5. Does one unceasingly talk about a thousand years and enemies destroyed, if one is certain of these thousand years and this annihilation?
Victor Klemperer
#6. National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism.
Victor Klemperer
#7. I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.
Werner Klemperer
#8. We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness.
Victor Klemperer
#9. Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.
Jaggi Vasudev
#10. But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.
Werner Klemperer
#11. Suddenly I don't even care that I fell, because of that brief moment when I stood, and I wonder if this is what other people seem to have that I do not--this courage to fall because they have memory of standing.
Kerry Kletter
#12. You know, I find it so difficult being a ... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
Werner Klemperer
#13. Nothing goes on forever. If it did, there wouldn't be anything else, would there?
M.R. Carey
#14. Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop.
Victor Klemperer
#15. Socialism has now become completely or almost completely identical with Bolshevism; that
Victor Klemperer
#17. The fact that I have such a problem that people ... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.
Werner Klemperer
#18. I only have the quite childish horror of the grave and of nothingness
Victor Klemperer
#19. When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done.
Werner Klemperer
#20. We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [ ... ] understanding.
Madeleine L'Engle
#21. I don't know exactly what the Xanax did to me. All I can remember is how relaxed and not-uptight I felt. I did not care about anything. Everything was nice, very nice.
Andrew Smith
#22. They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [ ... ] they will have to undertake something.
Victor Klemperer
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