Quotes About German Nationalism

#1. No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

Walter Kaufmann

#2. German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

Pankaj Mishra

#3. When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#4. There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

Samuel Fuller

#5. I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.

Anton Chekhov

#6. Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis
German National Socialism.

Hermann Goring

#7. Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

Jon Foreman

#8. I will rather kill myself than commit suicide.

Patience Jonathan

#9. Harlin needs you," she whispers. "He loves you too much."
I smile a little. "I know. But I like that about him.

Suzanne Young

#10. The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.

Robert D. Kaplan

#11. Frugal is an old-fashioned, mostly unused word and frugality is is an old-fashioned mostly unused virtue that has been waiting for hard times to come back. The Scots have another word for it - canny.

Keith Smith, Hard Times Handbook, 1984

Keith Smith