Democracy Quote 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.

— 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.

— Stefan Heym

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stefan Heym

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

— 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…

— 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…

— Stefan Heym

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

— Stefan Heym

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

— Stefan Heym