Berlin Wall Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Berlin Wall.
Top Quotes
“I am not the one trying to speed things up. We are being driven.”
“Walls in the mind often stand longer than those built of concrete.”
“Every stone bears witness to the moral bankruptcy of the society it encloses”
“The [Berlin] wall can disappear when those conditions that created it fall away.”
“Forget not the tyranny of this wall...nor the love of freedom that made it fall...”
“Wikivoyage: Berlin”
“Wikipedia: Berlin Wall”
“As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany.”
“Wikicommons: Berlin Wall”
“Wiktionary: Berlin Wall”
“The Berlin Wall, Video”
“The Wall will still be standing in 50 and even in 100 years; if the reasons for it have not been removed by then.”
“The Berlin Wall is perhaps the most visible expression of the moral gulf between free democracy and totalitarian dictatorship.”
“It was a historic deed that preserved the liberty of our people and laid the foundations for the sustained prosperity of our socialist state.”
“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.”
“General Secretary Gorbachev’s policy of restructuring brings with it, for the first time since the end of World War II, a justifiable hope of overcoming the East-West conflict.”
“The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism.”
“The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.”
“The Wall certainly ought not to be a permanent feature of the European landscape. I see no reason why the Soviet Union should think it is—it is to their advantage in any way to leave there that monument to communist failure.”
“We do not want a united Germany. This would lead to a change to postwar borders and we cannot allow that because such a development would undermine the stability of the whole international situation and could endanger our security.”