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

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote