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> [Today, when we live in a what is called Western democracy here... you're not taken seriously all the time. You can write what you want because nobody cares about it. But at that time, they cared very much about what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/today-when-we-live-in-a-what-is-called-western-democracy-here-you-re/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

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## More by Stefan Heym

> [A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/a-great-number-of-people-in-the-east-german-parts-had-been-nazis-so/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/show-me-one-place-where-a-whole-government-is-concerned-with-a-book/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/you-must-have-if-socialism-was-to-succeed-a-socialism-with-lots-of/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-not-only-saw-the-possibility-of-nuclear-war-i-feared-it-very-much/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-defended-myself-at-the-first-opportunity-i-had-which-was-a-meeting/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/people-who-were-not-active-in-the-intellectual-life-of-the-country/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-certainly-hoped-that-in-the-eastern-part-of-germany-what-was-just/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/even-in-west-germany-in-the-beginning-people-wanted-a-kind-of/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-did-not-oppose-unification-i-knew-unification-would-have-to-come/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/and-of-course-in-west-germany-they-made-every-effort-that-people-who/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/the-wall-was-the-actual-symbol-of-a-defeat-of-inferiority/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/i-was-in-psychological-warfare-in-world-war-ii-so-i-know/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/in-the-question-of-peace-people-spoke-up-and-demonstrated-for-peace/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/if-you-live-in-a-system-that-is-suppressive-you-don-t-walk-upright/)

[Stefan Heym](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-heym/)

> [Today, when we live in a what is called Western democracy here... you're not taken seriously all the time. You can write what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-heym/today-when-we-live-in-a-what-is-called-western-democracy-here-you-re/)

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