Gustav Heinemann Quotes

• The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Europe, Conversation, Secure

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• Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Democracy, Elements, Our Society

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• 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

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• 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

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• Disarmament requires trust.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Disarmament

  Gustav Walter Heinemann (1972). “Gustav W. Heinemann: President of the Federal Republic of Germany”

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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• Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Order, Insecurity, Resignation

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• 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

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• Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Existence

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• Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Faces, Tradition, Authority

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• 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

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• One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Political, Tasks, Noble

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• 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

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• 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

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• The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Firsts, Obligation

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