Frases de Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer
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 arquitectos da economia social de mercado. Foi ainda chanceler da República Federal da Alemanha e presidente da União Democrata-Cristã .
Citações Konrad Adenauer
„We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.“
— Konrad Adenauer
Context: We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.
Quoted in The Atlantic Community Quarterly v.14-15 (1976-1978), p. 200
„One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.“
— Konrad Adenauer
Statement about Hans Globke, as quoted in [http://www.n-tv.de/politik/BND-ueberprueft-Eichmann-Infos-article184945.html "In eigener Sache" at n-tv (8 June 2006)]
„In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.“
— Konrad Adenauer
As quoted in Through Russian Eyes : President Kennedy's 1036 Days (1973) by Anatoliĭ Andreevich Gromyko, p. 128
„I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.“
— Konrad Adenauer
As quoted in Loggers' Handbook Vol. 36 (1976), p. 72; also in [https://books.google.com/books?id=I1KaAAAAIAAJ North Western Reporter, Second series (1992)]; 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
„I wish that an English statesman might once have spoken of us as Western Europeans.“
— Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer's remarks on an Associated Press interview (5 October 1945)
„What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?“
— Konrad Adenauer
As quoted in Discussion : Mastering the Skills of Moderation (2009) by Horst Hanisch, p. 91
