"If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then the…"

"Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low."

"A New York City taxi driver asked him where to go; Karajan replied "No matter - I am in demand everywhere.""

"Isaiah Berlin referred to Karajan as "a genius, with a whiff of sulphur about him"."

"La vie même de Herbert von Karajan est un roman: petit aristocrate salzbourgeois devenu enfant prodige; étudiant vien…"

"Wer all seine Ziele erreicht, hat sie wahrscheinlich zu niedrig gewählt."

"And if Priebke had refused to obey Kappler, he would have been a hero. But he was not Salvo D'Acquisto, he was not a …"

"You could say he's my friend. [...] I consider him a German citizen, a Catholic Christian, a loyal soldier. [...] And…"

"National Socialism has disappeared and today it would have no chance of returning. There were no gas chambers in the …"

"I interviewed Erich Priebke. For me, he was always a human being, not a monster. And I still think he was created as …"