Friedrich Schiller Quotes

In circumstances where the law of force prevails, where security depends on power alone, the weakest party is naturally the most busy to place itself in a posture of defense.

Friedrich Schiller

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• Law
• Alone
• Party

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• The stratosphere is a hostile place.

  

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• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

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• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

  

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• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

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• Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

  

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• In circumstances where the law of force prevails, where security depends on power alone, the weakest party is naturally the most busy to place itself in a posture of defense.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Power
  • Law
  • Alone