German Influence Quotes

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

The official ideology [of Poland] is Marxism-Leninism, which no one openly admits to believing. For Marx expressed the German view, and Lenin the Russian one, and the meeting of these particular minds has always spelled Polish ruin.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.

Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

Since 2005, when the French and the Dutch voted "no" on a constitution for Europe, nobody has developed a real project for the EU. And certainly not France. If there were ideas, they came from Wolfgang Schäuble or Joschka Fischer, and these German ideas were downright quashed by France. I want to put an end to that.

The Germans [in America] could create a civil order which would liberate America from the chains and confusion of the near-dying English law which is a mockery of the young Republic, and striking testimony to American inefficiency.

I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.

I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz and other films where, where there's a kind of (influential German playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian approach, almost to the character standing outside of himself or, in this case, he's "self-séance-ing."

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe.

When she [Turkey] declared that she meant to observe a strict neutrality she was perfectly sincere. It is true that she ordered at the same time a general mobilization, but this was in the nature of a precautionary measure destined to safeguard the security of her territories. A painful experience has taught her … she can be at any time the sudden victim of armed aggression. It is because she would not allow herself any more to be overtaken by such a contingency that she called her entire manhood to arms. It is also true that a German mission headed by General Liman von Sanders is in charge of the reorganization of her land forces, but that does not mean, as some believe, and others, less ingenuous, affect to believe, that she has abdicated into its hands. Turkey has a great regard for Germany, as it seems to me every other nation must have which is not absolutely blinded by prejudice; and may have considered at one time or another the advisability of cooperating with her; but she is not at her beck and call, and has never been.

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.