Bruno Kreisky
(1911-1990)

Former Chancellor of Austria
Bruno Kreisky Prize for Human Rights

birthdate: January 22
birthplace:
Vienna, Austria

QUOTES

"we are opposing the exploitation of man by man, similarly we must oppose the exploitation of peoples by other peoples ... but today this is no longer enough ... we have to assist the peoples fighting for their independence to develop their economies, to increase their standard of living"

"The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life."

"Only revolutions without bloodshed reach their goal.“

"We must approach the questions of economic-cooperation and mutal assistance – in short, questions of international solidarity – with that blend of idealism and realism without which the great tasks before us can never really be accomplished."

"If one wants peace between Israel and the Arab nations, then one must solve the Palestinian problem."

I have come to the conclusion that it is necessary, without hate and without design, to intervene in the internal affairs of other states.“

"Whoever has a relatively long life behind him and has traversed the heights and the depths, knows that the fettered spirit always rises again. Let me close with the word of promise which has inspired many of us all our lives: For they cannot kill the spirit, brothers and sisters."

To me the answer to the question of how to overcome the economic crisis is to be found in a political solution. It can only consist of a large-scale international action in which the industrialized world - being immensely rich - is prepared to help build the infrastructures of the Third World on a continental scale in a planned way in order to give employment to the people of these countries, to create opportunities to develop their resources, by assisting them to increase their agricultural output through enlarging irrigation facilities, by developing their transport systems, by enabling them to use their energy reserves."

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