German Quotes

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.

We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

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

The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

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

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.

Everybody is talking today about the economy.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.