Frank-Walter Steinmeier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.
-- Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#War #Book #Thinking
Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.
-- Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#Military #World Issues #Germany
Russia's actions on the Crimean Peninsula were a serious violation of international law and of the principles upon which European peace is based. That is why we cannot let pass or ignore what took place.
-- Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#Serious #Action #International Law
Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.
-- Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#Ukraine #Violence #Lit
(Milosevic's passing) should not keep us from our efforts to provide peace and stability in the Balkans; on the contrary, it should renew them.
-- Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#Effort #Should #Passing

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

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