Famous quotes containing the words german and/or state:
“I dont want to shoot any Englishmen. I never saw one til I came up here. But I suppose most of them never saw a German til they came up here.”
—Maxwell Anderson (18881959)
“Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.”
—Günther Grass (b. 1927)