Heinemann Quotes

#1. A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

Deanna Vasquez

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

#5. I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Harlan Howard

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

Gustav Heinemann

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

Gustav Heinemann

#8. History nowadays is not a matter of conviction.
It's a performance. It's entertainment. And if it isn't, make it so.

Alan Bennett

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

Gustav Heinemann

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

Gustav Heinemann

#13. 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

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

Gustav Heinemann

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

#18. Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

Gustav Heinemann

#19. Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

Gustav Heinemann

#20. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart
the darkness that is always with us.

Larry Heinemann

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

Gustav Heinemann

#22. Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

Arthur C. Clarke

#23. 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

#24. But as soon as I closed my eyes, all I saw was Brennan and his faceless lover. And I knew that come tomorrow when I saw Brennan again, that would be all I saw.

Sloane Kennedy

#25. I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

Emily Browning

#26. The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.

Gustav Heinemann

#28. 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

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

Gustav Heinemann

#30. Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

Douglas Trumbull

#31. Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

Larry Heinemann