If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an examp…

- Stefan Heym

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

- Stefan Heym

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

- Stefan Heym

These were the things that the government supplied you with - in turn, of course, demanding obedience. But you must not imagine that it was a constan…

- Stefan Heym

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

- Stefan Heym

A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West …

- Stefan Heym

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

- Stefan Heym

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

- Stefan Heym

And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That …

- Stefan Heym