Joachim Von Quotes & Sayings

I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and ... was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so. — Joachim Von Ribbentrop

It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like "my kind of town" and "I wanna be a part of it" in it; the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and a dozen lowly matchgirls suddenly show amazing choreographical ability and everyone acts like cheery lovable citizens instead of the murderous, evil-minded, self-centered people they suspect themselves to be. But the point was that if Carrot had erupted into a song, people WOULD have joined in. Carrot could have jollied up a circle of standing stones to form up behind him and do a rumba. — Terry Pratchett

I must accept responsibility even though I had no power as foreign minister because it was a dictator state. — Joachim Von Ribbentrop

Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them. — Joachim Von Ribbentrop

I'm too ashamed to admit I'm afraid of the fall. — Tahereh Mafi

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits, which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.1 Leopold von Ranke — Joachim Fest

I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film], because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in. — Wes Craven

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself. — Eva Zeisel

Hard work is a sure death but a slower one than starvation. — Jim Hinckley

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. — Joachim Von Ribbentrop

I don't like religion; I don't like anything or anybody which tells me what to do! We must take orders only from our own intelligence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation. — Bono

What would have happened if Poland, rather than the Soviet Union, had accepted Joachim von Ribbentrop's proposals in 1939? Would the Soviet Union have withstood an invasion of Germany allied with Poland and, perhaps, Romania and Hungary as well? That Germany and Poland did not make an alliance, and that Germany and the Soviet Union did, is perhaps the single crucial fact about the war. — Timothy Snyder

Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory that belonged to her; because Britain was afraid of Germany getting too strong. — Joachim Von Ribbentrop

My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world. — Joachim Von Ribbentrop

Do not expect too much of the end of the world. — Bill Vaughan