Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

Nobody intends to put up a wall!

Nobody has the intention of building a wall

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

I dare play the game of life.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

Unanswered? I would've answered any question, Hannah. But you never asked.

Nihilism, there's really nothing to it.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity.

Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest.