Berlin Wall

“Walls in the mind often stand longer than those built of concrete.”

“On the very same day the first brick of the Ram Shila foundation was being laid at Ayodhya, the Berliners were removing bricks from the Berlin Wall. While a temple was going up in Ayodhya, a communist temple was being demolished five thousand miles away in Europe. If this is not history, I do not know what is. (...) The post-Nehru era began at Ayodhya on November 9, and it will gather momentum in the years to come, just as the post-communist era in Europe and elsewhere.”

“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.”

“General Secretary Gorbachev’s policy of restructuring brings with it, for the first time since the end of World War\xa0II, a justifiable hope of overcoming the East-West conflict.”

“I am not the one trying to speed things up. We are being driven.”

“The Wall certainly ought not to be a permanent feature of the European landscape. I see no reason why the Soviet Union should think it is—it is to their advantage in any way to leave there that monument to communist failure.”

“The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism.”

“Every stone bears witness to the moral bankruptcy of the society it encloses”

“We do not want a united Germany. This would lead to a change to postwar borders and we cannot allow that because such a development would undermine the stability of the whole international situation and could endanger our security.”

“Forget not the tyranny of this wall...nor the love of freedom that made it fall...”