Occupation: German Politician Birth: November 29, 1947 Death: October 1, 1992
The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses th….
Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up..
We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means un….
Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to t….
Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return..
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable..
Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection..
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfuncti….
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means t….
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support..
We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who a….
Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'.
A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be n….
Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of pow….
The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through c….
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage..
European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet U….
Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominanc….
I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace….
These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With thi….
We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears and feeling of powerlessnes….