Berlin Wall

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

— Berlin Wall

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.

— Berlin Wall

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.

— Berlin Wall

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.

— Berlin Wall

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

— Berlin Wall

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.

— Berlin Wall

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

— Berlin Wall

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

— Berlin Wall

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.

— Berlin Wall

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

— Berlin Wall