Guido Westerwelle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.
-- Guido Westerwelle

#War #Mean #Facts
As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions.
-- Guido Westerwelle

#Emotion #Ministers
I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.
-- Guido Westerwelle

#Growing Up #Military #Maturity
Military missions are not democratic development aid.
-- Guido Westerwelle

#Military #Development #Aids
Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.
-- Guido Westerwelle

#Military #Tools #Normal
As a minister, I would rather be criticized for thoroughly weighing the options, and sometimes even voicing my doubts, than to be reproached for recklessly sending German soldiers into combat.
-- Guido Westerwelle

#Soldier #Doubt #Sometimes
I was never a member of the peace movement or a pacifist, nor was I ever carried away from a demonstration outside a military barracks. Perhaps that's why I don't feel the need to compensate for anything.
-- Guido Westerwelle

#Military #Needs #Movement
I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.
-- Guido Westerwelle

#Military #Ideas #Campaigns

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

Guido Westerwelle famous quotes

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