Frasi di Kurt Waldheim

Kurt Josef Waldheim è stato un politico e diplomatico austriaco.

Militante nelle file del Partito Popolare Austriaco, è stato presidente dell'Austria dall'8 giugno 1986 al 1992.

Fu segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite dal 1972 al 1981.

Dopo il diploma, prestò servizio nell'Esercito federale prima di entrare all'Accademia consolare e d'intraprendere gli studi di Giurisprudenza a Vienna. Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale combatté nella Wehrmacht sul fronte orientale e nei Balcani; dopo la guerra, accusato dai media di aver preso parte a crimini nazisti, non fu mai processato. Diplomatico a Parigi, all'ONU e a Ottawa, fu ministro degli Esteri col cancelliere Josef Klaus . Ambasciatore d'Austria alle Nazioni Unite dal 1970, divenne segretario generale dell'ONU per due mandati consecutivi . È ricordato anche per aver inciso il messaggio di saluto sul Voyager Golden Record, il disco per grammofono lanciato nello spazio nel 1977 sulle sonde Voyager e che contiene suoni e immagini della terra, concepito per essere comprensibile ad eventuali altre forme di vita intelligente che lo ritrovassero. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Dicembre 1918 – 14. Giugno 2007
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Kurt Waldheim: Frasi in inglese

“I am convinced that the United Nations provides the best road to the future for those who have confidence in our capacity to shape our own fate on this planet”

The Challenge of Peace speech https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=l-8zjFmqrWsC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22I+am+convinced+that+the+United+Nations+provides+the+best+road+to+the+future+for+those+who+have+confidence+in+our+capacity+to+shape+our+own+fate+on+this+planet.%22+-quotes&source=bl&ots=4qdPUuEgR7&sig=veV7jGeSlmXbDn1FGnWvTky3kSM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb04WzhLnNAhXBtBoKHbSPAQEQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20am%20convinced%20that%20the%20United%20Nations%20provides%20the%20best%20road%20to%20the%20future%20for%20those%20who%20have%20confidence%20in%20our%20capacity%20to%20shape%20our%20own%20fate%20on%20this%20planet.%22%20-quotes&f=false, 1980
Contesto: I do not expect miracles or spectacular successes - sound political progress is seldom based in either - but I am convinced that the United Nations provides the best road to the future for those who have confidence in our capacity to shape our own fate on this planet.

“We can only accomplish what our member nations allow us to accomplish”

quoted in the article The United Nations—How Strong a World Force?, in The Watchtower magazine, September 15, 1974.
Contesto: You must not expect the United Nations to accomplish miracles. We are made up of sovereign nations. We can only accomplish what our member nations allow us to accomplish.

“I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet”

Message intended for extraterrestrials recorded onto the Voyager spacecrafts before they were launched into interstellar space.
Contesto: As the Secretary General of the United Nations, an organizations of the 147 member states who represent almost all of the human inhabitants of the planet earth. I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship, to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if we are fortunate. We know full well that our planet and all its inhabitants are but a small part of the immense universe that surrounds us and it is with humility and hope that we take this step.

“I did nothing during the war that was not also done by hundreds of thousands of Austrians, that was my duty as a soldier.”

Ich habe im Krieg nichts anderes getan als hunderttausende Österreicher auch, nämlich meine Pflicht als Soldat erfüllt.
Waldheim Affair http://derstandard.at/2000031874110/Ich-habe-im-Krieg-nichts-anderes-getan-als-meine-Pflicht, 9 March 1986

“I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger at 1986 wedding reception http://gawker.com/5803201/an-encyclopedia-of-every-other-awful-thing-arnold-schwarzenegger-has-done
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“Of course, there is no such thing as collective guilt, but I want to apologise as head of state of the Republic of Austria for those crimes committed by Austrians under the banner of National Socialism.”

Selbstverständlich gibt es keine Kollektivschuld, trotzdem möchte ich mich als Staatsoberhaupt der Republik Österreich für jene Verbrechen entschuldigen, die von Österreichern im Zeichen des Nationalsozialismus begangen wurden.
Rede des Bundespräsidenten Dr. Kurt Waldheim am Vorabend des 50. Jahrestages des „Anschlusses“ Österreichs an Hitlerdeutschland im Österreichischen Fernsehen http://www.uibk.ac.at/zeitgeschichte/zis/library/gehler.html#dok3
Often quoted as simply "There is no such thing as collective guilt".

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