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

- Stefan Heym

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

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

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

- Stefan Heym

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

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

People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted…

- Stefan Heym