Martin Niemoller Quotes

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Martin Niemoller

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• Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Powerful
  • Cold

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• The devil made me do it.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Me
  • Made
  • Devil

• A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Together
  • Radio

• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Movie
  • Two
  • Just

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Help

• Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Single
  • Car
  • Design

• It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Bad
  • End

• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Year
  • Poker

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I love the Army with every bone in my body.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Body
  • Army
  • Bone

• Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • True

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Red
  • Awkward

• When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Emotions

• For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which is essentially a series of public chat rooms (called channels) on topics relevant to a company or to teams within a company.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Service
  • Company
  • Website

• My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • High
  • City
  • Water

• I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • World
  • America
  • Film

• In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Time
  • Help

• In general, I believe it's fine to have impassioned conversations about Gwyneth Paltrow, but those of us who do so should admit it's a recreational activity and not a moral referendum.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Believe
  • Moral

• The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

  

  Sanjay Dutt
  • Film
  • Lovely

• I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • People
  • Parents

• Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

  

  Martin Niemoller