Berlin quotes
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"I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers."
"In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious."
"The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism."
"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
"First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin"
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"I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business.""
"Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood."
"Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich."
"I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved."
"I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits."
"Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties."
"There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is."
"[Isaiah] Berlin's observation is accurate enough, and applies at home as well, and even more harshly for the reasons already mentioned: the apparatchiks and commissars could at least plead fear in extenuation."
