Gunter Schabowski quotes

Gunter Schabowski quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).”
-- Gunter Schabowski

#Change Quotes #Country Quotes #Borders Quotes

“You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.”
“s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.”
“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.”
“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
“Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.”
“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”
“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”
“It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, â€˜We want it now, in our lifetime.â€™ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.”
“One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.”
“This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.”

Source : Benjamin Zephaniah (2011). “Refugee Boy”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing

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