Gustav Heinemann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#World #Our Actions #Utopia
Disarmament requires trust.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Disarmament
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Democracy #Elements #Our Society
The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Europe #Conversation
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.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#War #School #Men
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.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Economic #Individual #States
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.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Earning Trust #Grants #Prepared
I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Party #Government #Germany
Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Germany #Difficult #Fatherland
The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Firsts #Obligation
One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Political #Tasks #Noble
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.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Goal #Democracy #Demand
Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Faces #Tradition #Authority
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Existence
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.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Responsibility #Race #Arms
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
-- Gustav Heinemann

#Order #Insecurity #Resignation
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

#Reality #Secret #Tiny

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