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

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

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.

It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.

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

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

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

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

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 victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

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

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

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

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

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.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.