The best Quotes by Roman Herzog

(as President of Germany) - Dezember 1998

Light Candles

Morals can't be taught with words.

Morality

It's wrong to think that an educational system could work without conveying values!

Education

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

Knowing where you're going can be confusing. Trust your instincts.

Alice In Wonderland

Knowledge

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeleine L'Engle - A Ring of Endless Light

Light Darkness

Shadow and light are two sides of the same coin, one cannot exist without the other.

The Legend of Zelda in The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess

Light Shadows

Even the smallest candle pierces the darkness like the sharpest blade.

Pax Dei

Light Candles

Better light a candle than curse the darkness.

Days Gone

Candles

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings

Candles

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Morality

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Decisions Morality

It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.

Peter Parker in Spider-Man

Decisions Morality

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

Usher

Education

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

John Grogan

Education Dogs

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Robert Oppenheimer

Education College

Jewish communities are warning their members to avoid specific places for their own safety - today, here in Germany, almost 80 years after the Holocaust.

Robert Habeck - November 2023

Judaism Holocaust 2023

Putin has started a war because he can't stand individual freedoms of the people. Because Ukraine has become a threat to his dictatorship with their longing for freedom. Dictators fear freedom. That's why he must not be successful with this war, because that would mean that dictators can attack freedom.

Robert Habeck - Juni 2022

Russia-Ukraine War

If Putin were to win this war, what sign would that be for other dictators in the world like Xi, like the Chinese President? So therefore Ukraine has to win this war.

Annalena Baerbock - September 2023

Xi Jinping Russia-Ukraine War

We've been lied to a lot by the Kreml for at least one-and-a-half years. So obviously, the whole world looks at the Kreml when a former close confidant of Putin literally falls out of the sky, two months after he launched a rebellion.

Annalena Baerbock - August 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin

This is the dirty work that Israel is doing – for all of us. Otherwise, we might have continued to endure the terror of this regime for months or years – and possibly even with nuclear weapons.

Friedrich Merz - Juni 2025

Iran Israel 2025

A change of government is always a test of how mature a country's democracy is — whether the transition happens smoothly, without grandstanding or ambushes from either side. In every respect, I can say: Germany has once again passed this test.

Friedrich Merz - May 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!

Donald Trump - Juni 2025

Elon Musk

Falling down isn't dangerous or shameful. Not getting up is both.

Konrad Adenauer

Courage Giving Up

Konrad Adenauer

Olaf Scholz - December 2023

2023

Terror will not win, hatred will not prevail. Israel has every right to defend and to protect itself and its citizens. In this dark hour, Germany and France stand firmly by Israel's side.

Olaf Scholz - Oktober 2023

2023 Middle East Conflict

With clear language and undaunted diplomacy, he has significantly shaped the United States of America and post-war global politics.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - December 2023

Henry Kissinger

Queen Elizabeth II helped mending the wounds caused by World War II. Britain offered Germany the hand of conciliation. And the hand of conciliation was the hand of the Queen.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - September 2022

Death of Queen Elizabeth II

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness & Mercy Enemies & Opponents Names

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

Justice Air

It's not about counting women, it's about making sure that women count!

Claudia Roth - February 2019

Women's Rights

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Vladimir Lenin

Lies

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Vladimir Lenin

Weapons

Power itself isn't good or bad.

Kurt Georg Kiesinger

Power

All I say is: China, China, China!

Kurt Georg Kiesinger - September 1969

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

Kim Jong Un

Yesterday Today

Our republic is a responsible nuclear state that, as we made clear before, will not use nuclear weapons first unless aggressive hostile forces use nuclear weapons to invade on our sovereignty.

Kim Jong Un

Nuclear Weapons

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Optimism Pessimism

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill (on his 75th birthday)

Death Birthday Funny Politician Quotes

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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