"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem……" — Franz Grillparzer
"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."
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Franz Grillparzer
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45 Quotes by Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer has 45 quotes on this site.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an…
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble…
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those…
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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you…
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid…
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be…
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to…
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
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More Arms Quotes
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one of 3,936 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I…
— Tyra Banks
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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