Frases célebres de Konrad Adenauer
“Cuando los políticos no tienen la capacidad de gobernar, crean las comisiones.”
Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 236.
“En política lo importante no es tener razón sino que se la den a uno.”
Fuente: Las mejores citas de provocación / Best provocation sayings: contra todo y contra todos. Coña fina. Autor y editor Samuel Red. Editorial Grasindo, 2008. ISBN 9788479277802. p. 269. https://books.google.es/books?id=dzHccntKu5IC&pg=PA269&dq=En+%5B%5Bpol%C3%ADtica%5D%5D+lo+importante+no+es+tener+raz%C3%B3n+sino+que+se+la+den+a+uno&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr9anqrbvgAhU74eAKHbAUANwQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=En%20%5B%5Bpol%C3%ADtica%5D%5D%20lo%20importante%20no%20es%20tener%20raz%C3%B3n%20sino%20que%20se%20la%20den%20a%20uno&f=false
“Hay algo que Dios ha hecho mal. A todo le puso límites menos a la tontería.”
Fuente: Eusebio, Sebastián Arribas. Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0. p. 403. https://books.google.es/books?id=vFQPBiPfE00C&pg=PA403&dq=Hay+algo+que+%5B%5BDios%5D%5D+ha+hecho+mal.+A+todo+le+puso+l%C3%ADmites+menos+a+la+tonter%C3%ADa.+Konrad+Adenauer&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijz-PysLvgAhUVA2MBHVlTBqgQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Hay%20algo%20que%20%5B%5BDios%5D%5D%20ha%20hecho%20mal.%20A%20todo%20le%20puso%20l%C3%ADmites%20menos%20a%20la%20tonter%C3%ADa.%20Konrad%20Adenauer&f=false
“Hay enemigos, enemigos mortales y compañeros de partido.”
Fuente: Salazar, Antonio. La fortuna de hacer fortuna. Editorial Antonio Salazar García, 2009. ISBN 9788461364855. https://books.google.es/books?id=R0Vi7bd16yIC&pg=PT35&dq=Hay+enemigos,+enemigos+mortales+y+compa%C3%B1eros+de+partido.+Konrad+Adenauer&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8n5OcsbvgAhXj1uAKHfr9CsEQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Hay%20enemigos%2C%20enemigos%20mortales%20y%20compa%C3%B1eros%20de%20partido.%20Konrad%20Adenauer&f=false
Konrad Adenauer Frases y Citas
“La historia es la suma total de todas aquellas cosas que hubieran podido evitarse.”
Fuente: Citado en: Grecia, a la deriva http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2014/01/06/actualidad/1389034991_889921.html. El País, 6 de enero de 2014.
“La suerte es una flecha lanzada que hace blanco en quien menos lo espera.”
Fuente: Villamarín Pulido, Luis Alberto. Superación personal: Tesoro de la sabiduría- Tomo II. Editorial Luis Villamarín, 2015. ISBN 9781512274851. p. 72. https://books.google.es/books?id=uW1TCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA72&dq=La+%5B%5Bsuerte%5D%5D+es+una+flecha+lanzada+que+hace+blanco+en+quien+menos+lo+espera.+Konrad+Adenauer&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif3pehsrvgAhVD2OAKHVuTBykQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=La%20%5B%5Bsuerte%5D%5D%20es%20una%20flecha%20lanzada%20que%20hace%20blanco%20en%20quien%20menos%20lo%20espera.%20Konrad%20Adenauer&f=false
“Todos vivimos bajo el mismo cielo, pero ninguno tiene el mismo horizonte.”
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.
Konrad Adenauer: Frases en inglés
“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.”
Reader's Digest 1972, p. 194 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=ctsnAQAAIAAJ&q=adenauer
As quoted by General Sir Charles Fergusson in a memorandum (10 July 1945), recalling conversations with Adenauer in 1918-1919, at the end of World War I. As published in Adenauer : The Father of the New Germany (2000) by Charles Williams, p. 293 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=7mhpKYpugJsC&pg=PA293
“I wish that an English statesman might once have spoken of us as Western Europeans.”
Adenauer's remarks on an Associated Press interview (5 October 1945)
To French PM Guy Mollet after British PM Sir Anthony Eden unilaterally cancelled the Suez operation, thus angering Mollet. (6 November 1956), as quoted in Europe's Troubled Peace, 1945-2000 (2006) by Tom Buchanan, p.102, 2nd ed. 2012 p. 84 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=cAHcBeZhm6UC&pg=PA84&dq=revenge
As quoted in A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965) by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., p. 291 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=uFhNxX5lrNEC&pg=PA291&dq=stupidity
“What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?”
As quoted in Discussion : Mastering the Skills of Moderation (2009) by Horst Hanisch, p. 91
“One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.”
Statement about Hans Globke, as quoted in "In eigener Sache" at n-tv (8 June 2006) http://www.n-tv.de/politik/BND-ueberprueft-Eichmann-Infos-article184945.html
“I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.”
As quoted in Loggers' Handbook Vol. 36 (1976), p. 72; also in North Western Reporter, Second series (1992) https://books.google.com/books?id=I1KaAAAAIAAJ; 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
Konrad Adenauer: Memoirs 1945-1953 (1966)
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”
Lend Me Your Ears: Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (2010), 4th edition, edited by Antony Jay
Attributed
Oral History Interview with Konrad Adenauer https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/oral-histories/adenauer (10 June 1964), Harry S. Truman Library
Address on continuing European integration at the Grandes Conférences Catholiques https://www.cvce.eu/obj/address_given_by_konrad_adenauer_on_continuing_european_integration_brussels_25_september_1956-en-ea27a4e3-4883-4d38-8dbc-5e3949b1145d.html (25 September 1956)