Konrad Adenauer Quotes

• When everybody else thinks it's the end, we have to begin.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Thinking, Ends

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• We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Positive, Hope, Attitude

  The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volume 14-15, p. 200, 1976-1978.

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• To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Past, Looks, Make Sense

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• When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Home, Needs, World

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• We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Sky, Victory, Age

  The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volumes 14-15 (p. 200), 1976-1978.

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• In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Stupid, Men, Views

  "Through Russian Eyes: President Kennedy's 1036 Days". Book by Anatoly Gromyko, p. 128, 1973.

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• All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Want, Facts

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• Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Grows, Seeds

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• History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Government, History, Historical

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• First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Taken, Firsts

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• What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?

  Konrad Adenauer

  Yesterday, Care, I Care

  "Discussion: Mastering the Skills of Moderation". Book by Horst Hanisch, p. 91, 2009.

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• You have to take people as they are because there are no others.

  Konrad Adenauer

  People

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• God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Brain, Mind, Stomach

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• Thoughts and pictures come to my mind... thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on this earth - a time when we didn't know fear... Security and quiet have disappeared from the lives of men since 1914.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Real, Men, Years

  The West Parker Newspaper (Cleveland), January 20, 1966 (p. 1); later quoted in "How We Know We Live in the 'Last Days'" in The Watchtower Magazine, April 1, 1967.

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• As soon as you are complicated, you are ineffectual.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Complicated

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• The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Art, Knowing, Political

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• An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Funny, Humor, Method

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• I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Getting Older, Age, Goes On

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• All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Philosophy, Tired, Medicine

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• Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Butchers, Calves, Stupidest

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• The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Ignorance, Men, Stupidity

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• The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

  Konrad Adenauer

  War, World, February

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• A thick hide is a gift from God.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Gift From God, Thick

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• The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Cases, Satisfied, Conqueror

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• Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Soup, Johnson

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