Data de nascimento: 5. Janeiro 1876
Data de falecimento: 19. Abril 1967
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer GCTE • GCC foi um político alemão cristão-democrata, advogado, prefeito de Colônia e também um dos arquitetos da economia social de mercado. Foi ainda chanceler da República Federal da Alemanha e presidente da União Democrata-Cristã . Wikipedia
„Vivemos todos sob o mesmo céu, mas nem todos temos os mesmos horizontes.“
Wir leben zwar alle unter einem Himmel, aber wir haben nicht alle den gleichen Horizont!
citado em "Anekdoten um Konrad Adenauer" - Página 45, de Daniela Krein - Publicado por Kemper, 1960 - 115 páginas
„É uma pena que o limite da inteligência humana não seja proporcional ao da sua estupidez.“
Ist es nicht schrecklich, dass der menschlichen Klugheit so enge Grenzen gesetzt sind und der menschlichen Dummheit überhaupt keine?
citado em "Harenberg Lexikon der Sprichwörter& Zitate: Mit 50000 Einträgen das ..." -Página 201, de Brigitte Beier, Matthias Herkt, Bernhard Pollmann - Publicado por Harenberg, 1997, ISBN 3611006114, 97836110061111997 - 1600 páginas
„Os Estados totalitários conhecem apenas um fator determinante, que é o poder.“
Variante: Os Estados totalitários conhecem apenas um factor determinante, que é o poder.
As quoted in A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965) by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., p. 291 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=uFhNxX5lrNEC&pg=PA291&dq=stupidity
„We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.“
Reader's Digest 1972, p. 194 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=ctsnAQAAIAAJ&q=adenauer
„I wish that an English statesman might once have spoken of us as Western Europeans.“
Adenauer's remarks on an Associated Press interview (5 October 1945)
To French PM Guy Mollet after British PM Sir Anthony Eden unilaterally cancelled the Suez operation, thus angering Mollet. (6 November 1956), as quoted in Europe's Troubled Peace, 1945-2000 (2006) by Tom Buchanan, p.102, 2nd ed. 2012 p. 84 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=cAHcBeZhm6UC&pg=PA84&dq=revenge
As quoted by General Sir Charles Fergusson in a memorandum (10 July 1945), recalling conversations with Adenauer in 1918-1919, at the end of World War I. As published in Adenauer : The Father of the New Germany (2000) by Charles Williams, p. 293 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=7mhpKYpugJsC&pg=PA293
„What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?“
As quoted in Discussion : Mastering the Skills of Moderation (2009) by Horst Hanisch, p. 91
„One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.“
Statement about Hans Globke, as quoted in "In eigener Sache" at n-tv (8 June 2006) http://www.n-tv.de/politik/BND-ueberprueft-Eichmann-Infos-article184945.html
„I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.“
As quoted in Loggers' Handbook Vol. 36 (1976), p. 72; also in North Western Reporter, Second series (1992) https://books.google.com/books?id=I1KaAAAAIAAJ; similar remarks have been attributed to others, including more recent attributions to Adlai Stevenson and Abraham Lincoln.
Variant:
I insist on being smarter today than I was yesterday.
As quoted in How to Win the Meeting (1979) by Frank Snell, p. 3
