Top 31 Gustav Heinemann Quotes
#2. 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
#3. Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
Gustav Heinemann
#4. The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.
Tony La Russa
#5. The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.
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#6. 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
#7. Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
Gustav Heinemann
#8. The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
Adam Johnson
#9. Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
Gustav Heinemann
#10. Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
Gustav Heinemann
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. It is easy to lose sight of the ultimate purpose of economic policy: the life satisfaction of the population. That ultimate goal should be unassailable for a country founded precisely to defend the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#15. The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
Gustav Heinemann
#16. Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations.
Gustav Heinemann
#17. Never understood how much I loved you. I didn't. I know how we talked about our love, how it was this thing that was EVERYTHING to us? I was everything to me, Ever, every last goddamned motherfucking thing, and it's gone. You're gone. And I needed it even more than I knew then, when I had you.
Jasinda Wilder
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
Gustav Heinemann
#22. I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
Suzanne Collins
#23. In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Edmund Muskie
#24. Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
Gustav Heinemann
#25. The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!
Paige Davis
#27. One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
Gustav Heinemann
#28. 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
#30. Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
Socrates
#31. 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
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