Heinz Fischer quotes

“I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.”
-- Heinz Fischer

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“The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.”
-- Heinz Fischer

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“Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.”
-- Heinz Fischer

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“I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.”
-- Heinz Fischer

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“Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.”
-- Heinz Fischer

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“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.”
-- Heinz Fischer

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“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”

“Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.”

“The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.”

“Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”

“An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.”

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

“The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.”