5 Friedrich von Schiller Quotes on Politics

Friedrich von Schiller quotes on politics

47. When man is raised from his slumber in the senses, he feels that he is a man, he surveys his surroundings, and finds that he is in a state. He was introduced into this state, by the power of circumstances, before he could freely select his own position. But as a moral being he cannot possibly rest satisfied with a political condition forced upon him by necessity, and only calculated for that condition; and it would be unfortunate if this did satisfy him. In many cases man shakes off this blind law of necessity, by his free spontaneous action, of which among many others we have an instance, in his ennobling by beauty and suppressing by moral influence the powerful impulse implanted in him by nature in the passion of love.

70. I have only an office here, and no opinion.

115. It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

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123. No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

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145. Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

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