Cinema of Germany/1895%e2%80%931918 German Empire

Famous quotes containing the words cinema, germany, german and/or empire:

    “The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn’t believe it gets one in the neck.”
    —Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)

    “Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)