British way of life." The Cambridge laboratory included people of many different dispositions, convictions, and abilities. I saw them argue without quarrelling, quarrel without suspecting, suspect without abusing, criticize without vilifying or ridiculing, and praise without flattering.
Hans Krebs MEDICINE, 1953
662. I can understand and like the English only after they are dead.
François Mauriac LITERATURE, 1952
663. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw LITERATURE, 1925
664. You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
James Watson MEDICINE, 1962
GERMANY AND THE GERMANS
665. In spite of all the horrors of the past, I believe in you. Let us remember the victims and then let us walk together into the future to seek again a new beginning.
Nelly Sachs LITERATURE, 1966
On being awarded the German Book Publishers Association Peace Prize, October 1965
666. A good German cannot be a nationalist. A good German knows that he cannot be other than a good European.
Willy Brandt PEACE, 1971
667. To be anti-German seems to me just as bad as being antisemitic.
Hans Krebs MEDICINE, 1953
668. I then remarked that we were inflicting damage on ourselves by forcing Jews whose talents we needed to emigrate and that their talents would now be used for the benefit of foreigners. This he [Hider] did not accept at all and held forth at great length about quite general matters, ending up by saying: "It is said that I suffer on occasion from weak nerves. That is a slander. I have nerves of steel." With that, he slapped his knee with great force, spoke more and more rapidly and began to shake with such uncontrollable rage that there was nothing I could do but keep silent and take my leave as soon as I decendy could.
Max Planck PHYSICS, 1918
RUSSIA AND THE RUSSIANS
669. For a man whose mother tongue is Russian to speak about political evil is as natural as digestion.
Joseph Brodsky LITERATURE, 1987
670. On account of what you are doing to the Russian intelligentsia—demoralizing, annihilating, depraving them—I am ashamed to be called a Russian!
Ivan Pavlov MEDICINE, 1904
671. The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repression and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.
Mikhail Gorbachev PEACE, 1990
672. Actually, the demands of the hierarchy are very slight. There is only one thing they really want. You should hate what you like and love what you abhor! But this is the most difficult of all.
Boris Pasternak LITERATURE, 1958
673. At the Novosibirsk Transit Prison in 1945 they greeted the prisoners with a roll call based on cases. "So and so! Article 51 and 58-1A, twenty-five years." The chief of the convoy guard was curious. "What did you get it for?" "For nothing at all." "You are lying. The sentence for nothing at all is ten years."
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn LITERATURE, 1970
674.1 can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less . . . than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn LITERATURE, 1970
FRANCE AND THE FRENCH
675. One is more foreign in France than in other countries.
SaulBellow LITERATURE, 1976
676. The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
Winston Churchill LITERATURE, 1953
677. It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
André Gide LITERATURE, 1947
678. Paris proves that the city—simply a place where many people five, work and play—can be one of the marvels of human creativity.
Sheldon Glashow PHYSICS, 1979
679. Paris is very beautiful this fall. It was a fine place to be quite young in and it is a necessary part of man's education. We all loved it once and we lie if we say we didn't. But she is like a
Hans Krebs MEDICINE, 1953
662. I can understand and like the English only after they are dead.
François Mauriac LITERATURE, 1952
663. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw LITERATURE, 1925
664. You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
James Watson MEDICINE, 1962
GERMANY AND THE GERMANS
665. In spite of all the horrors of the past, I believe in you. Let us remember the victims and then let us walk together into the future to seek again a new beginning.
Nelly Sachs LITERATURE, 1966
On being awarded the German Book Publishers Association Peace Prize, October 1965
666. A good German cannot be a nationalist. A good German knows that he cannot be other than a good European.
Willy Brandt PEACE, 1971
667. To be anti-German seems to me just as bad as being antisemitic.
Hans Krebs MEDICINE, 1953
668. I then remarked that we were inflicting damage on ourselves by forcing Jews whose talents we needed to emigrate and that their talents would now be used for the benefit of foreigners. This he [Hider] did not accept at all and held forth at great length about quite general matters, ending up by saying: "It is said that I suffer on occasion from weak nerves. That is a slander. I have nerves of steel." With that, he slapped his knee with great force, spoke more and more rapidly and began to shake with such uncontrollable rage that there was nothing I could do but keep silent and take my leave as soon as I decendy could.
Max Planck PHYSICS, 1918
RUSSIA AND THE RUSSIANS
669. For a man whose mother tongue is Russian to speak about political evil is as natural as digestion.
Joseph Brodsky LITERATURE, 1987
670. On account of what you are doing to the Russian intelligentsia—demoralizing, annihilating, depraving them—I am ashamed to be called a Russian!
Ivan Pavlov MEDICINE, 1904
671. The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repression and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.
Mikhail Gorbachev PEACE, 1990
672. Actually, the demands of the hierarchy are very slight. There is only one thing they really want. You should hate what you like and love what you abhor! But this is the most difficult of all.
Boris Pasternak LITERATURE, 1958
673. At the Novosibirsk Transit Prison in 1945 they greeted the prisoners with a roll call based on cases. "So and so! Article 51 and 58-1A, twenty-five years." The chief of the convoy guard was curious. "What did you get it for?" "For nothing at all." "You are lying. The sentence for nothing at all is ten years."
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn LITERATURE, 1970
674.1 can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less . . . than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn LITERATURE, 1970
FRANCE AND THE FRENCH
675. One is more foreign in France than in other countries.
SaulBellow LITERATURE, 1976
676. The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
Winston Churchill LITERATURE, 1953
677. It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
André Gide LITERATURE, 1947
678. Paris proves that the city—simply a place where many people five, work and play—can be one of the marvels of human creativity.
Sheldon Glashow PHYSICS, 1979
679. Paris is very beautiful this fall. It was a fine place to be quite young in and it is a necessary part of man's education. We all loved it once and we lie if we say we didn't. But she is like a
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