Willy Brandt Quotes

#1. You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.

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#2. Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

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#3. Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede."

("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.)

Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 1973

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#4. It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

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#5. Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

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#6. Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

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#7. Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.

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#8. One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.

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#9. Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

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