Walter Ulbricht famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Peace #World #Shows
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Past #People #Together
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Needs #Principles #Profit
When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#War #Years #Government
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Government #Hymns #People
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Peace #Thinking #People
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Nature #Mistake #People
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Fall #Heaven #Fairy Tale
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#People #Needs #Firsts
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Purpose #Planning #Sensible
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Struggle #People #Victory
May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Peaceful #May #Fruit
Nobody has the intention of building a wall
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Wall #Building #Intention
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#People #Causes #Misery
Nobody intends to put up a wall!
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Wall #War #Cold
The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Congratulations #Benefits
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
-- Walter Ulbricht

#Secret #Population #West

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