Willy Brandt quotes

Willy Brandt quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann mÃ¼ssen sie Deutsch sprechen.”
-- Willy Brandt

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“The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and Communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order.”
-- Willy Brandt

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“Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.”
-- Willy Brandt
“Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.”
-- Willy Brandt

Source : Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”

#War Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Being Thankful Quotes
“Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.”
-- Willy Brandt

Source : Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”

#States Quotes #Truest Quotes
“You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.”
-- Willy Brandt

#May Quotes #Language Quotes
“One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.”
-- Willy Brandt

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“Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.”
-- Willy Brandt

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“As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.”
-- Willy Brandt

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“I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.”
“I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.”

Source : "Mexico's 'mother of all oil and gas rushes' is about to get ugly" by Wolf Richter, www.businessinsider.com. September 10, 2015.
“China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .”
“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.
“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”
“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”
“My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.”
“When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.”
“How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.”

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