Heinemann Quotes & Sayings

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

Poem
Heart of the heartless world,
Dear heart, the thought of you
Is the pain at my side,
The shadow that chills my view.
The wind rises in the evening,
Reminds that autumn is near.
I am afraid to lose you,
I am afraid of my fear.
On the last mile to Huesca,
The last fence for our pride,
Think so kindly, dear, that I
Sense you at my side.
And if bad luck should lay my strength
Into the shallow grave,
Remember all the good you can;
Don't forget my love. — John Cornford

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

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. — Gustav Heinemann

Whether any surfer wants to admit it or not, I think we've all had moments like looking at nice waves coming through the lineup maybe, only for a moment, feeling that we are in the presence of something holy. There is a spiritual-ness when you actually get in harmony with something as natural as the waves and the ocean, and yeah, it is definitely a religious experience. — Gerry Lopez

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

I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch. — Leelee Sobieski

Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school. — Irving Langmuir

Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible. — Uta Ranke-Heinemann

According to Jerome, Mary laid the foundations of virginity for both sexes, and the moral superiority of virginity becomes clear in her person. The reality was the other way around: Virginity was not prized because Mary was always a virgin, rather Mary was made a perpetual virgin because virginity was so highly praised. — Uta Ranke-Heinemann

Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets. — Bob Uecker

Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial expressions and tell me exactly what I'm thinking and feeling. We're actually very similar people. — Ndamukong Suh

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace. — Gustav Heinemann

If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen. — Shunryu Suzuki

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

Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts. — Uta Ranke-Heinemann

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible. — Gustav Heinemann

I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to. — Sue Tompkins

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

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order. — Gustav Heinemann

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. — Gustav Heinemann

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

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

Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church. — Uta Ranke-Heinemann

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust. — Gustav Heinemann

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. — Henry Miller

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. — Fran Lebowitz

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

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. — Aretha Franklin

( ... ) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/To try and try and never get it right./Oh, if I could -oh, if I only might,/I wouldn,t mind what hells I,d have to pass,/Not if the whole world called me fool and ass.
Dauber (A poem). John Masefield. 1916. London William Heinemann — John Masefield

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society. — Gustav Heinemann

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

We fell out of love, but only one of us was prepared to say it. — Mike Gayle