Austria's two achievements were to have persuaded the world that
Hitler
was
German
and that
Beethoven
was
Viennese
. ?
Christopher Hitchens
Austrians
have a wonderful sense of humour, Germans, not so much. ?
Christoph Waltz
Austria
, officially the
Republic of Austria
(German:
Republik Osterreich
), is a
country
in the
central
European Union
. It borders
Germany
, the
Czech Republic
,
Slovakia
,
Hungary
,
Slovenia
,
Italy
,
Liechtenstein
and
Switzerland
. It comprises 9 federated
states
. Its capital, largest city and one of the nine states is
Vienna
. It hosts the headquarters of the
OSCE
and
OPEC
. Its current head of state is President
Alexander Van der Bellen
, and its current head of government is
Karl Nehammer
.
- A.E.I.O.U.
- Initial letters of the following mottos of the Austrian Empire: 1.
Austriæ Est Imperare Orbi Universo
(It belongs to Austria to govern the world). 2.
Austria Erit In Orbe Ultima
(Austria will be last in the world). 3.
Aquila Electa Juste Omnia Vincit
(The elect eagle justly conquers everything). 4.
Alles Erdreich Ist Oesterreich Unterthan
(The whole surface of the globe is subject to Austria). 5.
Aller Ehren Ist Oesterreich Voll
(Austria is full of all honours).
- W. F. H. King,
Classical and Foreign Quotations
, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 47
- Bella gerant alii; tu, felix Austria, nube:
Nam quæ Mars aliis, dat tibi regna Venus.
- Fight those who will, let well-starred Austria wed;
And conquer kingdoms in the marriage-bed.
- Quoted in Sir
William Stirling-Maxwell
’s
Cloister Life of Charles V
(1846), chap. i. p. 3, note. The first words of this distich are from
Ovid
’s
Heroides
, 13, 84 (Laodamia and Protesilaus),
Bella gerant alii: Protesilaus amet
. When and by whom the quotation was composed is unknown.
- W. F. H. King,
Classical and Foreign Quotations
, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 215
- There is not one of the peoples or provinces that constituted the Empire of the Hapsburgs to whom gaining their independence has not brought the tortures which ancient
poets
and
theologians
had reserved for the damned. The noble capital of
Vienna
, the home of so much long-defended
culture
and
tradition
, the centre of so many
roads
,
rivers
, and
railways
, was left stark and starving, like a great emporium in an impoverished district whose inhabitants have mostly departed.
- Our difficulties with the
Russians
increased, but I never really blamed
Konev
. He obviously was merely carrying out instructions. He even had a sense of
humor
about it occasionally. Once when we were discussing Austrian
politics
, the name of the
Communist party
leader,
Ernst Fischer
, was mentioned. Jokingly, I said: "Well, I don't like him because he is a
Communist
." Konev grunted. "That's fine," he said. "I don't like him either because he's an Austrian Communist."
- Long live
Germany
. Long live
Argentina
. Long live Austria. These are the three countries with which I have been most connected and which I will not forget. I greet my wife, my family and my friends. I am ready. We'll meet again soon, as is the fate of all men. I die believing in
God
.
- Adolf Eichmann
, before his execution in
Jerusalem
(1 June 1962), as quoted in
Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer"
by David Cesarani (2006), p. 321
- Is the Austrian government pursuing some sort of ‘
enlightenment
from above’ at the expense of a free and open inquiry? Do Austrian
taxpayers
need an
Orwellian
‘Ministry of Truth’ to present them with a selection of trustworthy
media
reports and a public list of
heretics
,
dissenters
, and scapegoats?
- The situation is serious but not hopeless.
- There is no question of ever accepting Nazi representatives in the Austrian cabinet. An absolute abyss separates Austria from
Nazism
. We do not like arbitrary power, we want
law to rule our freedom
. We reject uniformity and
centralization
. ...
Christendom
is anchored in our very soil, and we know but one
God
: and that is not the
State
, or the
Nation
, or that elusive thing,
Race
.
Our children
are
God
’s
children
, not to be abused by the State. We abhor terror; Austria has always been a humanitarian state. As a people, we are tolerant by predisposition. Any change now, in our "status quo", could only be for the worse.
- Kurt Schuschnigg
,
London Morning Telegraph
(January 5, 1938), reprinted in Dorothy Thompson,
Let the Record Speak
(Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1939), p. 135
- I was born in Vienna, I grew up in Vienna, I went to school in Vienna, I graduated in Vienna, I studied in Vienna, I started my career in Vienna, I did theatre for the first time in Vienna, I did film for the first time in Vienna. There are also a few other Viennese details... But how much more Austrian can you get?
- I'm not German, I'm Austrian and
Austrians
have a wonderful sense of humour, Germans, not so much.
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