German Constitution - The best Quotes

Our constitution includes this wonderful article 1: "Human dignity is inviolable." What we're experiencing every day: Aggression against Jews, aggression against immigrants, violence and hate speech - that's what we have to stand up against!

Angela Merkel (as Chancellor of Germany) - September 2019

Human Rights Racism Dignity

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Life is too short to learn German.

Richard Porson (britischer klassischer Philologe) - 25.12.1759 - 25.09.1808

Germany

The Germans have six months of winter and six months of no summer.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Summer Germany Winter

German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Mark Twain

Germany Languages

Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

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Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

Barack Obama

Germany Berlin

The Germans and many others have the gift to make science inaccessible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Germany Science

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

Mark Twain in A Tramp Abroad

Germany Wine

In Germany, success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Gerhard Schröder - about Germany dropping out of the EURO 2000

Germany Success

Germany... where the national motto is, "let's stick to the present, shall we?"

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Germany

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Mark Twain

Germany

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

Mark Twain

Germany Berlin

I believe in Europe. I am convinced by Europe. Not only as a heritage from the past, but as hope and a vision for the future.

Angela Merkel (as Chancellor of Germany) - July 2020, Speech at the European Parliament

European Union

Democracy isn't just there. We have to work for it together - every day.

Angela Merkel - October 2021, during the 31st Day of German Unity

Democracy German Unity 2021

I am convinced that no force and no ideology can surpress the urge of the people for freedom, equality and peace in the long run.

Angela Merkel - August 2021

My objective is to govern in a reasonable way until the last day that I am in charge.

Angela Merkel - January 2021

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

Human Rights Freedom Opinions

Education is the most powerful weapon you can choose to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Human Rights Education

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

Human Rights Freedom Brücken

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek - Season 4 Episode 21

Human Rights Freedom Censorship

It's our "white" responsibility to make sure people who speak out about racism are safe at all times. This means ending structural racism in our societies, authorities and media.

Carola Rackete

Racism

Nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

Racism

Nationalists are saying, "you're disrespecting our flag." Well, you know what else is disrespectful to our flag? Racism.

Steve Kerr - September 2017

Racism

God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins.

Harriet Ann Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Tolerance Racism Skin

I think it's better to leave with decorum and great dignity.

Jiji in Kiki’s Delivery Service

Dignity

If it is meant for you, you won't have to beg for it. You will never have to sacrifice your dignity for your destiny.

Edgar Allan Poe

Fate & Destiny Dignity

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