14 Willy Brandt Quotes

Willy Brandt quotes

1. Now grows together that belongs together.

2. Democracy is not a question for use. It is a question for moral.

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

5. 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.

6. As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

7. The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and Communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order.

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

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

10. Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

11. “Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.”

12. “Seit Jahr und Tag ist notorisch, daß unsere Erde das vorausberechenbare Wachstum der Bevölkerung, die Erschöpfung der natürlichen Ressourcen und die Auszehrung der Umwelt nicht lange erträgt. Wir leben seit geraumer Zeit auf Kosten kommender Generationen. [...] Die Gefahr, daß die Menschheit sich selbst zerstört, ist auch dann nicht gebannt, wenn der Atomkrieg ausbleibt." ("It has been an obvious fact for the longest time that our earth will not be able to sustain for long the foreseeable growth of its population, the exhaustion of its natural resources, and the emaciation of its natural environment. We have been living for quite a while at the expense of our future generations. [...] The absence of a nuclear war does not, by itself, diminish the danger of humanity's self-destruction.") ”