My time in Weimar
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people – writers, scientists, artists. Eva Zeisel
Berlin
As we say in
As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot. Erik Spiekermann
It is advertising that
It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist…[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity. Enoch Powell
I like museums in
I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They’re extraordinarily good. Elliott Erwitt
[Written in 1901:] Nothing
[Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end! Elisabeth of Wied
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity,
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin – a huge one! Edmund Stoiber
The technologies which have
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. … It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris … Read more
But Hitler didn\’t strive
But Hitler didn’t strive for the annihilation of the Jews – he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the … Read more
What was most striking
What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them. Frank Rich
Whoever lives in Berlin
Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn’t die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! Ferdinand Lassalle