Gustav Heinemann quotes
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“In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.”
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“Disarmament requires trust.”
-- Gustav HeinemannSource : Gustav Walter Heinemann (1972). “Gustav W. Heinemann: President of the Federal Republic of Germany”
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“Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.”
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“The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.”
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“War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.”
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“We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.”
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“Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.”
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“I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.”
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“Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.”
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“The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.”
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“One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.”
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“Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.”
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“Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.”
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“Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.”
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“I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.”
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“Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.”
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“The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.”
-- Gustav Heinemann
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