Frases de Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer
Fecha de nacimiento: 5. Enero 1876
Fecha de muerte: 19. Abril 1967
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer fue un político alemán, primer canciller de la República Federal de Alemania y uno de los «padres de Europa» junto con Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet y Alcide De Gasperi, así llamado por su papel relevante en el surgimiento de las Comunidades Europeas.
Frases Konrad Adenauer
„We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.“
— Konrad Adenauer
Context: We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.
Quoted in The Atlantic Community Quarterly v.14-15 (1976-1978), p. 200
„In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.“
— Konrad Adenauer
As quoted in Through Russian Eyes : President Kennedy's 1036 Days (1973) by Anatoliĭ Andreevich Gromyko, p. 128
„One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.“
— Konrad Adenauer
Statement about Hans Globke, as quoted in [http://www.n-tv.de/politik/BND-ueberprueft-Eichmann-Infos-article184945.html "In eigener Sache" at n-tv (8 June 2006)]
„I reserve the right to be smarter today than I was yesterday.“
— Konrad Adenauer
As quoted in Loggers' Handbook Vol. 36 (1976), p. 72; also in [https://books.google.com/books?id=I1KaAAAAIAAJ North Western Reporter, Second series (1992)]; 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
