Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Willy Brandt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German politician Willy Brandt.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Willy Brandt was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe. He was the first Social Democrat chancellor since 1930.

German - Politician | December 18, 1913 - October 8, 1992

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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Willy Brandt

The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and Communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order.

Willy Brandt

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

Willy Brandt

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

Willy Brandt

One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.

Willy Brandt

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

Willy Brandt

You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.

Willy Brandt

Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

Willy Brandt

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Willy Brandt